[Fixed]-Issue when passing value from template to view through POST request

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request.POST.get('extra_field_count') seems to be the culprit for that error. With the form field extra_field_count not having an extra field count, it has no value. However, the pointer to a value of None still exists, and so can be found in the init method of your form, even though it has a value of none.

Consider this example. 

>>> mydict = {'a':None}
>>> print mydict.pop('a')
None

request.POST and kwargs are dictionaries just like mydict.

The easiest fix? Check for null values in the __init__ method of your form. 

extra_fields = kwargs.pop('extra', 0)
if not extra_fields:
    extra_fields = 0
👤Ian Price

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