Difference between Django Form 'initial' and 'bound data'?

Question

Given an example like this:

class MyForm(forms.Form): 
    name = forms.CharField()

I\'m trying to grasp what the difference between the fo

Answer 1

Another difference is that data expects something that widgets can parse whereas initial is per-field. This makes a difference if you e.g. use MultiWidgets. In such case data should contain something like

{'myfield_0': 'data for subwidget 0', 
 'myfield_1': 'data for subwidget 1'}

whereas initial expects something like this:

{'myfield': 'data for subwidget 0,data for subwidget 1'}