Django set field value after a form is initialized

Question

I am trying to set the field to a certain value after the form is initialized.

For example, I have the following class.

class CustomForm(forms.Form)         


        

Answer 1

To throw yet another way into the mix: this works too, with a bit more modern notation. It just works around the fact that a QueryDict is immutable.

>>> the_form.data = {**f.data.dict(), 'some_field': 47}
>>> the_form['some_field'].as_widget()
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