My apologies to the list. I just noticed the commas at the end of the lines in the views.py file.
Once I got rid of those, all was much better. On Feb 7, 11:33 pm, Ben Dembroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > Another silly question. I'm hoping someone here can explain something > about the way form validation and processing is working in the > following example of User Registration: > > From forms.py > > class RegistrationForm(forms.Form): > username = forms.CharField(label=u'Username', max_length=30) > email = forms.EmailField(label=u'Email') > password1 = forms.CharField(label=u'Password', > widget=forms.PasswordInput()) > password2 = forms.CharField(label=u'Repeat Password', > widget=forms.PasswordInput()) > fname = forms.CharField(label=u'First Name', max_length=30) > lname = forms.CharField(label=u'Last Name', max_length=30) > > def clean_password2(self): > if 'password1' in self.cleaned_data: > password1 = self.cleaned_data['password1'] > password2 = self.cleaned_data['password2'] > if password1 == password2: > return password2 > else: > raise forms.ValidationError('Passwords do not match.') > > def clean_username(self): > username = self.cleaned_data['username'] > if not re.search(r'^\w+$', username): > raise forms.ValidationError('Username can only contain ' > 'alphanumeric characters and > the underscore') > > try: > User.objects.get(username=username) > except User.DoesNotExist: > return username > raise forms.ValidationError('Username is already taken.') > > The relevant bit of views.py: > > form = RegistrationForm(request.POST) > if form.is_valid(): > user = User.objects.create_user( > username=form.cleaned_data['username'], > password=form.cleaned_data['password1'], > email=form.cleaned_data['email'], > ) > user.first_name=form.cleaned_data['fname'], > user.last_name=form.cleaned_data['lname'], > user.save() > return HttpResponseRedirect('/select') > > When I test use the form, and enter a username, password, email, first > and last name, it creates a user. However, the saved values for the > first and last name aren't what I expected: > > From manage.py shell: > > >>> User.objects.all() > > [<User: benjamin>, <User: bob>, <User: newguy>, <User: nexttest>]>>> peep = > User.objects.get(username='nexttest') > >>> peep.first_name > u"(u'next',)" > >>> peep.last_name > u"(u'test',)" > >>> peep.username > u'nexttest' > >>> peep.email > > u'[email protected]' > > > > As you can see, the values for the first_name and last_name are > unicode strings that represent a tuple? The other values seem to be > just fine. > > Any explanation on why this is happening? Or pointers on where to > look? I've re-read the documentation on forms, the usual googling, > etc. > > This is using version 1.2 > > Many thanks! > Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
