From a901b44c15d024a7a15ccbff5d167118427b924c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 09:02:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #3718 -- Exposed form errors to cleaning methods as
 soon as they are available. Patch from Gary Wilson.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5348 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
 django/newforms/forms.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/django/newforms/forms.py b/django/newforms/forms.py
index 41d2849d62..6ebebded4b 100644
--- a/django/newforms/forms.py
+++ b/django/newforms/forms.py
@@ -174,9 +174,8 @@ class BaseForm(StrAndUnicode):
         Cleans all of self.data and populates self._errors and
         self.cleaned_data.
         """
-        errors = ErrorDict()
+        self._errors = ErrorDict()
         if not self.is_bound: # Stop further processing.
-            self._errors = errors
             return
         self.cleaned_data = {}
         for name, field in self.fields.items():
@@ -191,16 +190,15 @@ class BaseForm(StrAndUnicode):
                     value = getattr(self, 'clean_%s' % name)()
                     self.cleaned_data[name] = value
             except ValidationError, e:
-                errors[name] = e.messages
+                self._errors[name] = e.messages
                 if name in self.cleaned_data:
                     del self.cleaned_data[name]
         try:
             self.cleaned_data = self.clean()
         except ValidationError, e:
-            errors[NON_FIELD_ERRORS] = e.messages
-        if errors:
+            self._errors[NON_FIELD_ERRORS] = e.messages
+        if self._errors:
             delattr(self, 'cleaned_data')
-        self._errors = errors
 
     def clean(self):
         """