Another option would be to create a __init__ (self,choices=()) method
on form
Then in the method, assign
self.fields['items'].choices = choices
and when you instantiate a form, you can specify the choices
choices = [('1', '1'), ('2', '2')]
form=RecoverForm(choices)
-Adi
On Jun 9, 12:43 pm, puff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I needed to create a dynamically initialized MultipleChoiceField.
> Unfortunately, the Django docs when talking about initialize didn't go
> into how to deal with MultipleChoiceField. A bit of scratching around
> didn't show a real solution although Getting dynamic model choices in
> newforms (http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/26/) is useful. I
> did find a ticket (#5033: Dynamic initial values for
> MultipleChoiceFields in newforms) that was apparently closed for
> rather poor reasons. Finally, I stumbled on this solution and am
> posting it here in the hope that others can find it.
>
> In the form:
>
> class RecoveryForm( forms.Form ):
> items = forms.MultipleChoiceField( choices = (), required =
> False )
>
> When it comes time to use it:
> choices = [('1', '1'), ('2', '2')]
> form = RecoveryForm( )
> form.fields[ 'items' ].choices = choices
>
> Problem solved.
>
> That said, I'm new to Django and VERY new to newforms so there may
> well be a better way.
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