Setting initial Django form field value in the __init__ method

I had that exact same problem and I solved it doing this:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    instance = kwargs.get('instance', None)

    kwargs.update(initial={
        # 'field': 'value'
        'km_partida': '1020'
    })

    super(ViagemForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    # all other stuff