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13015	Language regarding ModelForms with instances attached vs. bound Forms is unclear	Wedg	Tim Graham	"I discovered that providing initial via the field = FormField(initial='foobar') method and form = ModelForm(initial={'field':'method'}) behaves differently when the ModelForm is attached to a difference.

The documentation refers to a model instance bound to a form (at least in one location: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/forms/modelforms/#overriding-the-clean-method).

And also the documentation describing initial (both for fields and Forms) says that it only provides a value for unbound forms.

Perhaps we could clarify the language to say that an instance is attached to a ModelForm, but the form itself is unbound - and maybe yet further explain that any initial= values for a FormField will be overridden by the values from an attached model instance, which in turn will be overridden by any initial= values provided to the ModelForm at runtime.
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