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Forms in Django

Django's form class instances contain the state of each field and, by summarizing them up a level, of the form itself. The form has two important state attributes, which are as follows:

• is_bound: If this returns false, then it is an unbound form, that is, a fresh form with empty or default field values. If it returns true, then the form is bound, that is, at least one field has been set with a user input.
• is_valid(): If this returns true, then every field in the bound form has valid data. If false, then there is some invalid data in at least one field or the form is not bound.

For example, imagine that you need a simple form that accepts a user's name and age. The forms class can be defined as follows (refer to the code ...