Re: Preselected Radio button

On May 25, 4:12 pm, Ndungi Kyalo <ndu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am trying to pre-select a radio button created with the django.forms library :
>
>     choices = forms.ChoiceField(
>         widget = forms.RadioSelect(),
>         choices = [
>             ['a', 'i liked it'],
>             ['b', 'i did not like it']
>         ],
>         required=True
>     )
>
> How would I go about getting the 'a' choice pre-selected on an unbound form ?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/forms/api/#dynamic-initial-values

IIRC, this should be enough.

As a side note, you'd better use tuples than lists for your choices -
at least for the "value, label" pairs which are semantically tuples,
and possibly for the choices list itself but then it's more of a micro-
optimisation (tuples are lest costly than lists).

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