Little typo in the Formset docu

[hannes.hapke@…]

Is it possible that the example regarding "Using initial data with a formset" has too many brackets?

>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(initial=[
...     {'title': u'Django is now open source',
...      'pub_date': datetime.date.today()},
... ])

could it be ... (above did knot work for me)

>>> formset = ArticleFormSet(initial={
...     'title': u'Django is now open source',
...     'pub_date': datetime.date.today(),
... })

With the inital example I get the error msg:

dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 5; 2 is required

Just a thought.

Best regards,
Hannes

[Jannis Leidel]

In [16564]:

Fixed #16467 -- Corrected formset code example. Thanks, teraom.

[dmclain]

The documentation was correct as written. Initial should be an array of dictionaries where the dictionaries are used for successive forms.

If you look at https://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/forms/formsets.py#L110 to construct the i'th form instance the initial paramater pulls self.initial[i]

[Gabriel Hurley]

In [16623]:

Fixed #16467 -- Restored a previously correct example which was broken in [16564]. Thanks to dmclain for pointing out that the original example was correct.