form new versus edit

I have a "new" contact form. If I post it, and it has error, I found
(while debugging, not documented that I can find) that I can redraw
the submitted form data using form.name.data like this:

<input type="text" name="name" value="{{ form.name.data }}" />

But, if I use that same form model in my "edit" contact form,
form.name.data is None. Why is that?

In my new method I do:

form = ContactForm( request.POST )

In my edit method I do:

contact = Contact.objects.get( pk=id )
form = ContactForm( instance=contact )

But then the form contains none of the fields I'm expecting, form.name
simply isn't there so form.name.data throws an exception.

What am I doing wrong?

I'd really like to just have my one _form.html template included in
both my add.html and my edit.html templates. How can I do that when
the form doesn't even work the same between new versus editing?

Thanks.

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Greg Donald
destiney.com | gregdonald.com

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