Hey everyone,

am pretty new to Django and Python in general.
I seem not be able to let the 'initial' value of a form-field be
calculated by its parent form.

I'd like to do sth like this:

class AbstractForm(forms.Form):
    some_attr = "foo"

    def some_method(self):
        if self.some_attr == "foo": return "foo"
        return "Something else..."

    some_field = forms.CharField(initial=self.some_method())

..but obviously I cant access 'self' when declaring some_field.. and
obviously I have yet to learn a lot about Python oop :)

Fyi. I do not want to initiate form defaults like
f = MyForm(initial=...) in my views since I'd have to repeat that in
each view.

I'd rather do things like this lateron:
class ConcreteForm(AbstractForm):
    some_attr = "bar"

Somebody willing to enlighten me?

Thx a lot & cheers
carsten


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