Issues with validation - django

Question

I have some issues with validation.When i am submitting the form, the form.is_valid():
always returns false.
After modifying the form i.e. after removing all validations from the form, it still return the false(my form is not submitted)
the code of html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block extrahead %}
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.23/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
$( "#id_birthday" ).datepicker();
});
</script>
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<form action="" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="register_div">
<p><label for="username">Username:</label></p>
<p>{{ form.username }}</p>
</div>
<div class="register_div">
<p><label for="email">Email:</label></p>
<p>{{ form.email }}</p>
</div>
<div class="register_div">
<p><label for="password">Password:</label></p>
<p>{{ form.password }}</p>
</div>
<div class="register_div">
<p><label for="password1">Verify Password:</label></p>
<p>{{ form.password1 }}</p>
</div>
<div class="register_div">
<p><label for="birthday">Birthday:</label></p>
<p>{{ form.birthday }}</p>
</div>
<div class="register_div">
<p><label for="name">Name:</label></p>
<p>{{ form.username }}</p>
</div>
<p><input type="submit" value="submit" alt="register"/></p>
</form>
{% endblock %}
the code of forms.py
from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.forms import ModelForm
from drinker.models import Drinker
class RegistrationForm(ModelForm):
username = forms.CharField(label=(u'User Name'))
email = forms.EmailField(label=(u'Email Address'))
password = forms.CharField(label=(u'Password'), widget=forms.PasswordInput(render_value=False))
password1 = forms.CharField(label=(u'Verify Password'), widget=forms.PasswordInput(render_value=False))
class Meta:
model=Drinker
exclude=('user',)
def clean_username(self):
username=self.cleaned_data['username']
try:
User.objects.get(username=username)
except User.DoesNotExist:
return username
raise forms.ValidationError("The Username is already taken, please try another.")
def clean_password(self):
password=self.cleaned_data['password']
password1=self.cleaned_data['password1']
if password1 != password:
raise forms.ValidationError("The Password did not match, please try again.")
return password
class LoginForm(forms.Form):
username = forms.CharField(label=(u'User Name'))
password = forms.CharField(label=(u'Password'), widget=forms.PasswordInput(render_value=False))
and the code of views.py
def DrinkerRegistration(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated():
return HttpResponseRedirect('/profile/')
if request.method == 'POST':
form = RegistrationForm(request.POST)
#return render_to_response('register')
if form.is_valid():
user=User.objects.create_user(username=form.cleaned_data['username'], email=form.cleaned_data['email'], password = form.cleaned_data['password'])
user.save()
# drinker=user.get_profile()
# drinker.name=form.cleaned_data['name']
# drinker.birthday=form.cleaned_data['birthday']
# drinker.save()
drinker=Drinker(user=user,name=form.cleaned_data['name'],birthday=form.cleaned_data['birthday'])
drinker.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/profile/')
else:
return render_to_response('register.html',{'form':form} , context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
''' user is not submitting the form, show them a blank registration form '''
form = RegistrationForm()
context={'form':form}
return render_to_response('register.html',context , context_instance=RequestContext(request))
the model code
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
class Drinker(models.Model):
user =models.OneToOneField(User)
birthday =models.DateField()
name =models.CharField(max_length=100)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name
#create our user object to attach to our drinker object
def create_drinker_user_callback(sender, instance, **kwargs):
drinker, new=Drinker.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)
post_save.connect(create_drinker_user_callback, User)

Answer 1

I can see two possible reasons:
Your template contains two usages of username: once at the top and once at the bottom. The form might fail because this does not fit into a single CharField.
It's hard to say without your model class, but maybe it contains fields you haven't explicitly excluded?
If it's not option 1, could you post your Drinker model as well?

Answer 2

Did you checked the errors reporting while validating?
use print form.errors and check your console for error messages

Answer 3

If your code changes aren't reflecting in the run environment, look at removing your *.pyc files. These sometimes can get cached.
For linux OS you can run the following from the root of your project;
find . -iname "*.pyc" -exec rm -f {} \;