On Sep 21, 3:25 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, phoebebright > <phoebebri...@spamcop.net>wrote: > > > > > Have been stuck on this one for a couple of days so hoping for some > > enlightenment from some more able django users. Am aware of the > > 'gotcha' where the model name matches and attribute or one of the Meta > > values. > > > I am getting this when a form is instantiated with an existing object > > - no problem if the form is blank. > > Since you are getting an error when the form is instantiated with an > existing object, that would have been more helpful code to post than the > model definition. It appears based on the error you are getting that in > this case you are passing the existing object as the first positional > argument? At any rate the model instance you are using appears to be > getting assigned to the form data attribute, which could happen if you are > passing the instance as the first positional argument when you create the > form. > > I do not think the problem has anything to do with the names of the fields > in your model but rather it has to do with exactly what code you are using > to create the form when you have an existing instance you want to use. > > Karen
Karen, Spot on with the first positional argument I think, but I now get the error: form = TweetForm(instance=obj) TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'instance' Here is the view: if request.method == 'POST': form = TweetForm(request.POST) etc. elif isinstance(obj, TweetLog): form = TweetForm(instance=obj) <----- had TweetForm(obj) before! else: default_taglist = request.session.get('taglist', '') form = TweetForm(initial = {'tweet_taglist' : default_taglist}) # An unbound form return form And the form: class TweetForm(forms.Form): tweet = forms.CharField(widget=TweetFieldWidget(), required=True) tweet_taglist = forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=False) process_backwards = forms.BooleanField(required=False) attached_notes = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea, required=False) attached_url = forms.URLField(required=False) attached_file = forms.FileField(required=False) attached_image = forms.ImageField(required=False) class Media: js = ('/js/jquery.js', '/js/jquery-ui.min.js','js/ jeditable.js','js/tweetform.js', 'js/jquery-ui.tabs.js') css = { 'all': ('/css/jquery-ui.css','/css/smoothness/jquery- ui-1.7.2.custom.css') } class Meta : model = TweetLog fields = ('tweet','attached_notes','attached_url','attached_file','attached_image') --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---