Re: retrieving initial form data

Thanks! Exactly what I needed. I subsequently found it in newforms/ forms.py. Duh! I think my eyes just glazed over when I saw all that complicated new-style Python class stuff. On Oct 17, 1:10 pm, Doug B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bound data and initial data dicts are just set on

Re: retrieving initial form data

The bound data and initial data dicts are just set on the form instance as form.data, and form.initial. This isn't 'clean' data though, so you are bypassing any newforms validation. a = AForm( initial = {'x': 1} ) a.initial['x'] --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

retrieving initial form data

Given an instance of a form that was created with initial data, how do I extract a specific field value? For example, a = AForm( initial = {'x': 1} ) How do I find out what value the field named 'x' is? a.fields['x'] gives me a.fields['x'].initial returns None I am not interested in