I've debated adding a "reset" method like that to Form via
subclassing. But I don't know enough about the implementation of
Widget's subclasses to be sure that "" is the correct default value
for them. I think some (all?) of them expect None as a default value.

Dave

On Oct 29, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Tristan Short wrote:

> David,
>
> Have you thought of doing it this way...
>
> form = Form()
> form.add's...
>
> if form.is_submitted() and not form.has_errors():
>     doit(form.get's...)
>
>     # all form processing complete and no user resubmit required to
> fix
> bad entries so can safely reset form
>     for w in form.get_all_widgets():           #could use
> form.__iter__() as well maybe?
>     w.value = ''
>
> form.render()
>
> Regards,
>
> Tristan
>
>
> David K. Hess wrote:
>>
>> I would like to process a submitted form, reset it back to
>> default/empty and then render it again in one request. This is for a
>> page with multiple forms on it.
>>
>> I'd like to avoid a redirect as I may set some values in other forms
>> or change the way the page renders based on what was in the submitted
>> one.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:45 AM, David Binger wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:16 AM, David K. Hess wrote:
>>>
>>>> the intended usage of Form?
>>>>
>>>> def get_form(self):
>>>>         form = Form()
>>>>     form.add's...
>>>>     return form
>>>>
>>>> def some_url [html] (self):
>>>>
>>>>         form = self.get_form()
>>>>
>>>>         if form.is_submitted() and not form.has_errors():
>>>>             doit(form.get's...)
>>>>
>>>>         header()
>>>>         form = self.get_form()
>>>>         form.render()
>>>>         footer()
>>>
>>>
>>> I've lost track of your purpose with the second Form instance.
>>> If you want to clear the form errors, you can just do that
>>> explicitly.
>>> If you want a form as if the page was not submitted
>>> at all, maybe you should redirect("").
>>>
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