Re: Silently continuing past an exception: is this proper? how else can I do this?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Chiw
<randomshinichi4869@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems there's a problem with my code, because you're just supposed to
> pass a dict to DocumentForm (or any modelForm really), not a model instance.
>
> I actually want to make a DocumentForm initialized with values from an
> existing Document, so I can list existing Documents and provide a way to
> re-upload them and edit their description. Is this the right way to do it?

DocumentForm(instance=d)

I can't see anywhere in the docs where this is explicitly specified as
the stock ModelForm API, but it is firmly implied by this page:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/forms/modelforms/#modelform

The first positional argument is expected to be data submitted by the browser.

Cheers

Tom

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