possible example code error

[ikiini]

def contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
        form = ContactForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
        if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
            # Process the data in form.cleaned_data
            # ...
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/') # Redirect after POST
    else:
        form = ContactForm() # An unbound form

    return render_to_response('contact.html', {
        'form': form,
    })

Notice that the render_to_response uses the form variable that may not have been initialized. this is located at: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/forms/#topics-forms-index

[Alex Gaynor]

Fixed the formatting, in the future please use preview.

[Karen Tracey]

I am not seeing how form could be uninitialized before use. form is initialized in both the case where request.method is POST and when request.method is anything else. (The else goes with the first if not the if form.is_valid().) One of those blocks of code must run before render_to_response is reached.