A tidy way of validating forms in Django

gistfile1.py

from django.shortcuts import redirect, render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

from .forms import UserProfileForm


def my_view(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = UserProfileForm(request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            redirect(reverse("relevant_success_url"))
    else:
        form = UserProfileForm()

    template_vars = {
        'foo': "bar",
        'form' : form
    }
    return render_to_response("my_template.html", template_vars,
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))