django newforms for models
The way django does forms is in a state of transition. There's the old (or, depending on your point of view, current) way, manipulators , and the new way, newforms . newforms is only available in the svn version of django at present, and is still incomplete. Despite this, newforms is usable and provides several compelling advantages over the old way. The docs at present are a little thin (although improving quickly), but the unit tests are full of useful examples (the stuff towards the end is the most interesting, and shows off some of the flexibility of newforms). One thing that would be nice, though, is a way of easily creating a form class that uses a model class's fields. If we have this, we can avoid needless and tedious repetition. Django recently got a function that can be used for this, newforms.form_for_model. It's a start, but there are a few things I'd like it to do that it currently can't. I'd like to use the model's specified defaults, if any,