Entries published on November 25, 2007

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Newforms, part 3

Now that I’ve got the user-profiles application out in the wild, let’s take a look at one last important feature of Django’s newforms library: the ability to dynamically generate forms “on the fly” from model classes, via the helper functions form_for_model and form_for_instance. And, just as importantly, let’s look at why they shouldn’t always be the first thing you reach for when you need to build a form.

How model-generated forms work

We’ve already taken a look at how to introspect Django models using Django’s own internal APIs, and if you’ve been following along with my posts this month you’re …

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