title: Django - Adding initial value to a formset
body: <p>I have a many-to-many relationship between two classes (Lesson and Student), with an intermediary class (Evaluation).</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to set up a form which will allow me to add a lesson with students and the related evaluation data.  I can get all of the fields I want to display correctly, however I also need to set an initial value behind the scenes (the current user), as it does not make sense to have it in the form.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried following the docs but I think I have a syntax error in the way I am passing the data to the formset.</p>
  
  <p>The error I receive is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'initial'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My actual view (with my attempt at adding the initial data removed) looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def addlesson(request):
  LessonFormset = inlineformset_factory(Lesson, Evaluation, exclude=('user',), max_num=5)
  if request.method == 'POST':
      lesson = Lesson(user=request.user)
      form = LessonForm(request.POST, instance=lesson, user = request.user)
      formset = LessonFormset(request.POST, instance = lesson)
      if form.is_valid() and formset.is_valid():
          form.save()
          formset.save()
          return HttpResponseRedirect("/")
  else:
      form = LessonForm(user = request.user)
      formset = LessonFormset()
  return render_to_response("addlesson.html", {
      'form': form,
      'formset' : formset,
  }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Could anyone show me to correct syntax to use to set the current user in the formset?
  This is what I had before but it was giving me the error at the start of my post:</p>
  
  <pre><code>initial={'user': request.user},
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any advice appreciated</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>