If you're using custom forms it's often times much easier to do
validation within the forms class using the clean_xxx() methods. I
know this isn't the question you're asking, but I feel like that
should be thrown out there.
~ Anders
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> I'm trying to use newforms to create a form to login on my site
> (there's some stuff in the userprofile which prevents me from using
> ths standard django.contrib.auth.views.login view)
>
> I nearly have everything set up just as I'd like it.. but it seems
> that when newforms validators have performed their stuff on my form,
> and found no validation errors of their own, they won't let me add
> anything to the empty list which calling form['fieldname'] will give
> you.
>
> I've tried form['fieldname'].append('whatever') and form['fieldname']
> += ['whatever'] -- both with no avail.
>
> Could someone perhaps explain to me what I could do to work around the
> AttributeError that I get every time I try something like this. For
> the record, I can append to the list when there _are_ validation
> errors. Seems strange to me.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Oliver
>
>
> >
>
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