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Python Django Forms Forms Create a Validator

Jesper Sørensen
Jesper Sørensen
540 Points
Posted by Jesper Sørensen
Jesper Sørensen
540 Points

This Code works in my vscode editor but not in this ide

?

myproject/forms.py 
from django import forms


def not_treehouse(email_end):
    email_lowercase = email_end.lower()
    if email_lowercase.endswith('@teamtreehouse.com'):
        forms.ValidationError('Email is from treehouse staff')


class LeadShareForm(forms.Form):
    email = forms.EmailField()
    link = forms.URLField()
    honeypot = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput, required=False)

    def clean_honeypot(self):
        honey = self.cleaned_data['honeypot']
        if len(honey):
            raise forms.ValidationError('Bad robot!')
        return honey

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

See this video @ 2:39. You are missing something.

Jesper Sørensen
Jesper Sørensen
540 Points
Jesper Sørensen
Jesper Sørensen
540 Points

yes I found out. I missed the 'raise' before the 'forms.ValidationError('Email is from treehouse staff')' Thanks!