Ah Ha, now we're getting somewhere! Let me start searching for that, thank you!!
John On 5/15/07, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/15/07, John M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wish the custom form option would allow me to bind to a data object, > > based on field names being the same, that way I could have fields in > > the form that aren't bound and ones that are, without a lot of hassle. > > To do that you want to get a dictionary out of the object, which means > using the '__dict__' attribute. For example: > > my_obj = MyModel.objects.get(pk=1) > form = MyForm(my_obj.__dict__) > > The form is smart enough to take a dictionary-like object and pull out > the values it wants; that's how it works with request.POST, for > example. > > -- > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of > correct." > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
