Fixed #20464 -- Added a `total_error_count` method on formsets.

Thanks to frog32 for the report and to Tim Graham for the review.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.6.txt b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
index 458ccdc2a5..7d449edbe5 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.6.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ Minor features
   :class:`~django.contrib.admin.InlineModelAdmin` may be overridden to
   customize the extra and maximum number of inline forms.
 
+* Formsets now have a
+  :meth:`~django.forms.formsets.BaseFormSet.total_error_count` method.
+
 Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6
 =====================================
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt b/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
index 77341cf55d..29139c5dea 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/formsets.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,23 @@ As we can see, ``formset.errors`` is a list whose entries correspond to the
 forms in the formset. Validation was performed for each of the two forms, and
 the expected error message appears for the second item.
 
+.. currentmodule:: django.forms.formsets.BaseFormSet
+
+.. method:: total_error_count(self)
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.6
+
+To check how many errors there are in the formset, we can use the
+``total_error_count`` method::
+
+    >>> # Using the previous example
+    >>> formset.errors
+    [{}, {'pub_date': [u'This field is required.']}]
+    >>> len(formset.errors)
+    2
+    >>> formset.total_error_count()
+    1
+
 We can also check if form data differs from the initial data (i.e. the form was
 sent without any data)::