Speaking as a Python newbie who is currently learning Django then OOP
(i.e. the opposite of the logical, preferred order), I would really
love documentation on this sort of thing. I wrote a hackish workaround
to a very similar problem just yesterday which I can currently
updating with your example
On 2/11/07, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> As Honza suggested, you're already able to do this in a *much* more
> generic fashion by simply subclassing the form and implementing
> __init__(). I'm marking the ticket as a wontfix.
Fair enough.
Is there any interest in adding this to
On 2/11/07, Benjamin Slavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please see the ticket located at:
> http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3479
>
> In terms of coding this, it's a trivial change with tremendous benefit
> for users and wouldn't hurt backwards compatibility within newforms.
> If there's supp
On 2/11/07, Honza Král <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> true, but what would happen if you added two lines (or worse - an
> extra argument to a generic function/method) for everything that 10%
> of people would use and is easily (even though maybe little clumsily)
> done without it? Certainly nothin
On 2/12/07, Benjamin Slavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 2/11/07, Honza Kr�l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > is this really necessary ? since you always subclass formsForm, why
> > wouldn't you use:
> > class PasswordChangeForm(forms.Form):
> > def __init__( self, user, *args, **kwargs
On 2/11/07, Honza Král <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> is this really necessary ? since you always subclass formsForm, why
> wouldn't you use:
> class PasswordChangeForm(forms.Form):
> def __init__( self, user, *args, **kwargs ):
> super(PasswordChangeForm, self ).__init__( *args, **kwa
On 2/11/07, Benjamin Slavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I've run into a few situations where I need to pass data into a Form
> for validation.
>
> Consider, for example, a 'change password' form.
> Validation of the current password is required to ensure correct
> authorization.
> To validate t
I've run into a few situations where I need to pass data into a Form
for validation.
Consider, for example, a 'change password' form.
Validation of the current password is required to ensure correct authorization.
To validate the current password, the form needs to know the user it
is validating
