On 2/18/07, paulh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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?
yes, you must either wrap the form in a function or assin the choices
every time you wish to work with the form. with overriding the
__init__, it is part of the form and you don't have to think about it
at all... depends how you want to use it...
>
> 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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