The Definitive Guide to Pylons

Chapter 6. Working with Forms and Validators

Form handling is one of those areas that at first glance appears very simple but in real applications can quickly become rather complicated. There are generally two approaches to dealing with forms. The first is to code all your forms, validation, and logic manually to give you complete control over how your forms work. The alternative approach is to use a form framework where ready-made classes exist for each of the field types you might want to use. The form framework then automates the generation of HTML, the validation of data, and the display of error messages for you.

At first glance, it might appear that a form framework would save you a lot of time, but in reality, form frameworks are rarely ...