Django snippets

def none_if_empty_list(f):
        def func(*args, **kwargs):
                if len(args)>1 and args[1]=={}:
                        args=[arg for arg in args]
                        args[1]=None
                return f(*args, **kwargs)
        return func

#use this decorator on your forms like this:

class myForm(forms.Form):
	@none_if_empty_list
	def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
		forms.Form.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

#and use the model this way:

def myview(request):
	form=myForm(request.POST)

#if the request is NOT post, the form will just be empty. If it is post and some values #are missing/wrong, you will get the errors like always. This avoids code linke this:

def myview(request):
	if request.method=="POST":
		form=myForm(request.POST)
	else:
		form=myForm()