I am trying to update a form field after getting a form in the POST method. When I am trying to update the form I am getting following error
Request Method: POST Django Version: 1.6.6 Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: 'SmsPduForm' object does not support item assignment My Form Code is class SmsPduForm(forms.Form): """ This class generates the SMS PDU form """ pduType = (('1','SMS-SUBMIT'), ('2','SMS-DELIVER')) encoding = (('0','7 BIT'), ('8','UCS2')) Address = forms.CharField(max_length=20, min_length=5, required=True, label="Target Address", initial="+917654321") SMSC = forms.CharField(max_length=13, min_length=5,required=True, label="SMSC Address", initial="+91244414") PDUType = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.RadioSelect, choices=pduType, required=True, label="PDU Type", initial=pduType[0]) EncodingType = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.RadioSelect, choices=encoding, required=True, label="Encoding Type", initial=encoding[0]) Text = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'row':6, 'cols':50}),required=True, label="SMS Text", initial="Hello", max_length=140) smsPDU = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'row':6, 'cols':50}),required=True, label="SMS PDU", initial="Hello", max_length=140) #Meta class of the form class Meta: fields = ('Address', 'SMSC', 'PDUType', 'EncodingType', 'Text', 'smsPDU') My view code is def smsHandler(request): context = RequestContext(request) if request.method == 'POST': method="" #Do for post method else do for get method smsPduForm = SmsPduForm(request.POST) smsc = smsPduForm['SMSC'].value() address = smsPduForm['Address'].value() encodingType = smsPduForm['EncodingType'].value() pduType = smsPduForm['PDUType'].value() text = smsPduForm['Text'].value() smsPdu = smsPduForm['smsPDU'].value() print(smsc,address,encodingType,pduType,text,smsPdu) if "Encode" in request.POST: method = "encode" smsEncObj = SmsEncoder(encodingType, smsc, pduType, text, address ) smsPdu = smsEncObj.generateSmsSubmitPdu() #SmsPduForm.clean_smsPDU() #Here I am updating the form smsPduForm['smsPDU'] = smsPdu elif "Decode" in request.POST: method = "decode" print("Action need to perform:",method) contextDic = {'forms':SmsPduForm} return render_to_response('telecom_utils/smsUtil.html',contextDic,context) else: contextDic = {'forms':SmsPduForm} return render_to_response('telecom_utils/smsUtil.html',contextDic,context) How can i update the form ? Kindly look into the issue. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/75f83eb2-fa29-4022-9c9c-760f0060c209%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.