id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 19719 Example in documentation saves an unbounded form alexpirine anonymous "https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#the-save-method This doesn't work: {{{ >>> a = Article.objects.get(pk=1) >>> f = ArticleForm(instance=a) >>> f.save() # AttributeError: 'Article' object has no attribute 'cleaned_data' }}} Also confirmed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2393348/django-form-error#comment2374980_2394120 and here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/api/#behavior-of-unbound-forms" Bug closed Documentation 1.4 Normal fixed Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0