Yeah.. you are right.. you will have to initialize the superclass..
the complete code that i have used is something like this..
class TestForm(ModelForm):
items = forms.MultipleChoiceField( choices = (), required
=
False )
On Jun 9, 1:35 pm, puff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't it necessary to initialize the super class with
>
> super(RecoverForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>
> When I did so i got an illegal keyword argument!
>
> On Jun 9, 1:55 pm, Adi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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.- Hide quoted text -
>
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