How can I send variables to my forms on init in Django?

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Published on 2010-05-12T20:11:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 20:14 UTC
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I want to send variables to a form in my Django project so that my form's save method associates the correct object with the foreign key in the model.

I tried setting it in the init method, but that doesn't seem to work.

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