Re: Django 1.1.1 - Can't get form validation working

Thanks Guys,
I understand about the form issues...I was just tinkering...
However yes it was the comma's I had at the end of the fields in my
form. They didn't throw errors for the face its a sequence as you said
Karen.
Thanks Karen and David for such a quick response...
Andrew

On Nov 2, 2:08 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David De La Harpe Golden <
>
>
>
> david.delaharpe.gol...@ichec.ie> wrote:
>
> > Karen Tracey wrote:
> > > Commas are good on the ends of elements in a sequence, they are not
> > > good here.
>
> > Indeed, a comma at the end actively denotes a kind of sequence, a matter
> > of python syntax. There won't be an immediate error as "blah," means
> > "1-element tuple" as per
> >http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#tuples-and-sequences
>
> > i.e.
> > username = forms.CharField(),
> > means
> > username = (forms.CharField(),)
>
> > So the assignment succeeds without error but django later won't do
> > anything especially useful with username during inspection of the form
> > definition as it'll look at it and go "nope, this ain't a django
> > formfield, just some tuple"
>
> Ah, right.  Thanks for pointing out the explanation.  Doing something to
> make Django fail loudly for stuff like this (I recall it tripping up someone
> once on a model definition as well) might be worthwhile.  The current
> no-error-but-really-confusing-results behavior is not ideal.
>
> Karen
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