Jacob,
Thanks so much for this; it really helped me.
Tom
On Feb 16, 8:29 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tom <t.scr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can set other initial data, for example to the 'notes' CharField
> > fine. I guess my question boils down to: how do you set initial data
> > for a many-to-many field?
>
> The initial data for a many to many field needs to be a list. So::
>
> f = EmailForm(initial={'contacts': [contact.id]})
>
> Remember: it's a *many-to-many* field, which means that the field has
> *many* values.
>
> Also notice the error message: "'long' object is not iterable". This
> is telling you that someone, somewhere, has tried to iterate (treat as
> a list) something (a long integer) that isn't a list object.
>
> Jacob
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