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POdjango form getting value from previous instance?
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    copied!<p>any ideas why this is happening?</p> <pre><code>(Pdb) import copy (Pdb) tmpForm=copy.copy(form1) (Pdb) form1 &lt;cms.forms.MainFeaturedForm object at 0x7f05a0493350&gt; (Pdb) tmpForm &lt;cms.forms.MainFeaturedForm object at 0x7f05a054e950&gt; </code></pre> <p>copying form1 to tmpForm (and making sure they're on different memory addresses) to make sure this behaviour is not happening because form1 is being changed</p> <pre><code>(Pdb) v1=form1.save(commit=False) (Pdb) v1.position </code></pre> <p>as can be seen above, v1.position == None right after a form1.save(commit=False)</p> <pre><code>(Pdb) v1.image_type=2 (Pdb) v1.Article=article (Pdb) v1.section=33 (Pdb) v1.save() (Pdb) v1.position 55L </code></pre> <p>here I set some values and saved it the save() function changes v1 position to 55 (that's expected)</p> <pre><code>(Pdb) v2=tmpForm.save(commit=False) (Pdb) v2.position 55L </code></pre> <p>but now, after I saved v1, v2 (a completly new instance) has a position setted to the same one that was set on v1 (not expected)</p> <hr> <p>in case it helps, here's the save() function of this object (class Featured):</p> <pre><code>def save(self): if self.Article: try: featured = Featured.objects.get(Article=self.Article, section=self.section) self.hiddenID = featured.hiddenID if self.position == None: if featured.position == None: self.position = 55 else: self.position = featured.position super(Featured, self).save(force_insert=False, force_update=True) except Featured.DoesNotExist: self.hiddenID = None super(Featured, self).save(force_insert=True, force_update=False) else: self.hiddenID = None super(Featured, self).save(force_insert=True, force_update=False) </code></pre>
 

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