You get that error because you use kwargs.pop (presumably that's why)
and you pass OTHER_VALUE as a positional argument.
E.g.
MY_FORM(request.POST, OTHER_VALUE=OTHER_VALUE)
would pass it as a keyword argument and then you can
use kwargs.pop('OTHER_VALUE') in the form's init.
On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 18:37 -0700, HashRocketSyntax wrote:
> When I call my form in my view, I am trying to pass MY_VALUE to the
> form as an argument.
> I am doing this because I want to get my validation out of my views
> and into my forms.
>
> views.py
> OTHER_VALUE = "the query that i run"
> if request.method=='POST':
> form = MY_FORM(request.POST, OTHER_VALUE)
>
> forms.py
> class MY_FORM(forms.Form):
>
> real_value = forms.CharField()
> def clean_real_value(self):
> if OTHER_VALUE ...
>
>
>
> This throws the error:__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
> 'OTHER_VALUE'
>
> =========
>
> I've tried setting the init with kwargs
> class MY_FORM(forms.Form):
> real_value = forms.CharField()
>
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> OTHER_VALUE = kwargs.pop('OTHER_VALUE')
> super(MY_FORM, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>
>
> error:
> Exception Value: 'employee'
> Exception Location: /Users/macbook/Desktop/OrgDB/orgchart/forms.py in
> __init__, line 42
>
>
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