form clean

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(max_length=50)

    def clean_name(self):
        name = self.cleaned_data['name']
        if name == 'Bob':
            raise forms.ValidationError(u'Name cannot be "Bob"')
            self.data['name'] = ''
        return name

Hope that helps you out.

[Edit]

Here's an expanded example that is working for me in Django 1.3.

#models.py
from django.db import models

class ContactRequest(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    email = models.EmailField()
    subject = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    message = models.TextField()
    response_returned = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name


#forms.py
class ContactRequestForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = ContactRequest
        exclude = ('response_returned',)

    def clean_email(self):
        email = self.cleaned_data['email']
        if email != 'test@test.com':
            self.data['email'] = ''
            raise forms.ValidationError(u'Email is not test@test.com')
        return email







http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6766289/when-a-form-clean-method-detects-an-error-how-do-i-redisplay-empty-fields-ins