Django, ModelChoiceField() and initial value

Question

I\'m using something like this:

field1 = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=...)

How can I make my form show the a value as selected?

Answer 1

The times they have changed:

The default initial value can now be set by defining initial like other form fields except you set it to the id instead.

Now this will suffice:

form = YourForm(initial = {'field1': instance_of_mymodel })

Though both still work.