Accessing form fields as properties in a django view

Question

According to the Django tutorial, you should access form fields using cleaned_data dictionary. I\'m wondering why I can\'t access the properties of the form directly? My for

Answer 1

If your form is validated then you can access myForm cleaned_data:

print myForm.cleaned_data.get('description')

If you want to see why you cannot access myForm.description then you can see the data dictionary of your myForm:

print myForm.__dict__