Django: The Easy Form Views Pattern Controversy

Of course the intention was to get attention, though if you're going to post something here with a blatant grab for clicks, shouldn't you at least include some content? Not only do you state right up front that it's unlikely anyone but you will find this controversial, you present a point made to you showing that the approach you're discussing is fundamentally flawed.

Summary: "This is what I did. It saved me about three lines of code. Then someone pointed out that I was actually mishandling requests by ignoring the framework's explicitly-available standard identifier provided to me for exactly this purpose. Not only that, it causes inconsistent misbehavior in different versions of the framework."

I'm certainly guilty of looking for ways to cut corners like this -- I think we all are -- but being up front about "this was a bad idea" and changing the tone of the article to reflect a lesson learned instead of what's very clearly a suggestion you later discovered you shouldn't have been making would've made it a much more useful and succinct read.

    form = MyForm(request.POST if request.method == 'POST' else None)