If you are okay with overriding the values in you view, then can use
something like:
...
form = MyForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
...
<whatever you want to do>
else:
data = form.data.copy()
data['field_name'] = 'default_value'
form = MyForm(data)
...
Not very efficient, but clean code.
Thanks,
Subhranath Chunder.
www.subhranath.com
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Jonas H. <jo...@lophus.org> wrote:
> On 08/13/2011 05:00 PM, Karen Tracey wrote:
>
>> Plus, afaik, fields can not access form instances so this code would have
>>> to live in the form subclass -- not practical in my use case.
>>>
>>> Where I have done this (reluctantly) has been in the form (or perhaps it
>> was
>> the field) clean method, where self is the form. I am not sure why in your
>> case you believe that to be not practical.
>>
>
> The field's clean method does not have access to the form; but the
> value-changing logic should go into the field code because I want to re-use
> the field on multiple forms. Well, I guess that's just not possible with
> Django's form framework. I'll have to find some workarounds.
>
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