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authorClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2012-03-17 22:31:03 +0000
committerClaude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>2012-03-17 22:31:03 +0000
commitc7cc4cfb9ebef17930db4a92cd0632a536a4ff7a (patch)
treee55dd0e148bb8247e7a1f5dec71572483050e6b5 /docs/ref
parentf13328f7762dbdc920395bdf5c50fe0b6e40f1db (diff)
Fixed #16138 -- Made FormMixin get_initial return a copy of the 'initial' class variable. Thanks hanson2010, wilfred@potatolondon.com and agriffis for their work on the patch.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17765 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -431,9 +431,14 @@ FormMixin
.. method:: get_initial()
- Retrieve initial data for the form. By default, returns
+ Retrieve initial data for the form. By default, returns a copy of
:attr:`.initial`.
+ .. admonition:: Changed in 1.4
+
+ In Django 1.3, this method was returning the :attr:`initial` class
+ variable itself.
+
.. method:: get_form_class()
Retrieve the form class to instantiate. By default