Commit b1487c49 authored by Timo Graham's avatar Timo Graham
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[1.2.X] Fixed #13949 - Note that readonly fields can't be modified via custom... 

[1.2.X] Fixed #13949 - Note that readonly fields can't be modified via custom clean methods. thanks alk for the suggestion and elbarto and Gabriel Hurley whose language I used in the final patch.

Backport of r15060 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@15061 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/topics/forms/index.txt

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@@ -139,7 +139,11 @@ While you could access ``request.POST`` directly at this point, it is better to 
access ``form.cleaned_data``. This data has not only been validated but will

also be converted in to the relevant Python types for you. In the above example,

``cc_myself`` will be a boolean value. Likewise, fields such as ``IntegerField``

and ``FloatField`` convert values to a Python int and float respectively.

and ``FloatField`` convert values to a Python int and float respectively. Note

that read-only fields are not available in ``form.cleaned_data`` (and setting

a value in a custom ``clean()`` method won't have any effect) because these

fields are displayed as text rather than as input elements, and thus are not

posted back to the server.



Extending the above example, here's how the form data could be processed: