Prepopulate Django (non-Model) Form

Question

I\'m trying to prepopulate the data in my django form based on some information, but NOT using ModelForm, so I can\'t just set the instance.

This seems like it shoul

Answer 1

You can use model_to_dict() to convert an instance to a dictionary, and then populate a form with that. Something like this should work:

from django.forms.models import model_to_dict
...
my_obj = MyModel.objects.get(abc=123)
form = MyForm(initial=model_to_dict(my_obj))

Note: I'm using django version 1.3