On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:37 -0800, web-junkie wrote: > Hi, > > why isn't whitespace automatically stripped from fields when using > modelforms? This would be convenient.
Convenient in your case. Absolutely tragic for situations where whitespace is important. So that's why it doesn't happen automatically. I've sometimes thought we could one day add a "strip space" option to CharField and TextField. Not sure how that would translate up to ModelForms, though. You might have to manually tweak the attribute in those cases. Anyway, that's for the future. As to how to do it now: add a clean_FOO() method for each field FOO that you want to strip spaces from (see the newforms docs). Then read the value out of self.cleaned_data, strip it and return it. It won't be too repetitive, since you can write a factory function to do most of the work. Regards, Malcolm -- The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
