Form.errors returns an HTML unordered list, rather than a python dict object

[brook]

The documentation for Form.errors (​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/api/#django.forms.Form.errors) says that Form.errors will return a python dict. Instead an html unordered list is returned.

[brook]

Simple test that prints out the errors of an invalid form

[Karen Tracey]

Your test prints the errors. This causes the errors dict to get converted to an HTML unordered list. See:

​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tags/releases/1.1/django/forms/util.py#L14

If you access it directly instead of printing it, you will see it is a dict:

>>> import django
>>> django.get_version()
'1.1'
>>> from django import forms
>>> class SForm(forms.Form):
...    int = forms.IntegerField()
...
>>> sf = SForm({})
>>> sf.is_valid()
False
>>> sf.errors
{'int': [u'This field is required.']}
>>> print sf.errors
<ul class="errorlist"><li>int<ul class="errorlist"><li>This field is required.</li></ul></li></ul>
>>>

[brook]

Gotcha - that makes sense.