Pass value from view to non-model form

[HashRocketSyntax]

When I call my form in my view, I am trying to pass MY_VALUE to the form as an argument.

I am doing this because I want to get my validation out of my views and into my forms.

views.py

OTHER_VALUE = "the query that i run"
if request.method=='POST':
  form = MY_FORM(request.POST, OTHER_VALUE)

forms.py

class MY_FORM(forms.Form):

  real_value = forms.CharField()
  def clean_real_value(self):
    if OTHER_VALUE ...

This throws the error:

__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'OTHER_VALUE'

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I've tried setting the init with kwargs

class MY_FORM(forms.Form):
  real_value = forms.CharField()

  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    OTHER_VALUE = kwargs.pop('OTHER_VALUE')
    super(MY_FORM, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

error:

Exception Value: 'employee'
Exception Location: /Users/macbook/Desktop/OrgDB/orgchart/forms.py in __init__, line 42

[Tomasz Knapik]

You get that error because you use kwargs.pop (presumably that's why) and you pass OTHER_VALUE as a positional argument.

E.g.

MY_FORM(request.POST, OTHER_VALUE=OTHER_VALUE)

would pass it as a keyword argument and then you can use kwargs.pop('OTHER_VALUE') in the form's init.

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[HashRocketSyntax]

It seems to like that! `(arg1, OTHER_VAL=OTHER_VAL) 

Now I'm trying to access that other_value:

  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    OTHER_VAL = kwargs.get('OTHER_VAL') #tried these:  #kwargs['OTHER_VAL'] #kwargs.pop('OTHER_VAL')
    super(MY_FORM, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Keep on getting errors like:

`KeyError: 'OTHER_VAL'`

# or 
__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'OTHER_VAL'

[HashRocketSyntax]

SOLVED. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50997267/django-pass-value-from-view-to-non-model-form/51002442#51002442

thank you for pointing me in the right direction