Thanks for the replies. As always, reading the docs again teaches you
a bit more than the first time; I now see that that initial was not
what I was after.
Arnaud, I think your method is more what I was after and as you say,
it does exactly what I wanted.
It seems to be much simpler than overriding the __init__ method. Is
that simplicity at some cost I wonder?
Paul Hide
On Feb 18, 12:35 am, "Arnaud Delobelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Feb 17, 7:05 pm, "paulh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I feel the following should work:
> > class Myform(forms.Form):
> > ...publ = forms.ChoiceField(label='Publisher', required=False)
>
> > and then in handler I should be able to set the choices dynamically
> > by:
>
> > def meth(request):
> > ...frm=Myform(initial={'publ':((1,2),(2,3),(3,4)))}) #even if the
> > brackets are wrong here, they were right in the original
>
> That shouldn't work as initial is meant to set the value of a field.
>
> I had the same problem and a peek at the source told me that a
> ChoiceField has a 'choices' attribute which is settable so:
>
> form = MyForm(...)
> form.fields['publ'].choices = ((1,2),(2,3),(3,4))
>
> will work, but I don't know whether it is the right thing to do (TM).
>
> --
> Arnaud
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