Entries published on November 22, 2007
Newforms, part 1
If you’ve ever had the pleasure (and I use that term somewhat loosely) of working with Django’s original form-processing system (which now lives in django.oldforms and is in the process of being deprecated), you’ll know that the replacement currently under development (which currently lives in django.newforms and will eventually become simply django.forms) represents an immense simplification and adds quite a few capabilities which weren’t present before. But because it’s still quite new (and parts of it are still being developed), it’s still not fully documented, and so can be a bit tricky to wrap your head around for the …