title: Can you access ManyToManyField values before saving in Django 1.7?
body: <pre><code>class Playlist(models.Model):
      name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
      num_of_songs = models.IntegerField(max_length=15)
      duration = models.IntegerField()
      songs = models.ManyToManyField("Song", blank=True)
  
      def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
          self.num_of_songs = self.songs.count() ==&gt; this is wrong, but you get the idea
          super(Playlist, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>NOTE</strong>:
  The save method above is not a part of the original code, I added this to show you what I'm going for.</p>
  
  <p>I have a Playlist model in Django as described above. When I create a playlist from my views, I use a ModelForm to save the object. In other words i do a form.save(), and then append the correct num_of_songs and duration based on the songs that are saved in the database, and then i do a playlist.save().</p>
  
  <p>That all works fine and dandy, but if I create a playlist from django admin however, I have to manually enter those values, and they won't be changed unless I change the list from the view. So in admin I can enter wrong values and they'll stay that way.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to override the save method, I can't get the selected songs because they're not saved in the database yet. </p>
  
  <p>So my question is, is there a way to read the selected values from ManyToManyField before save? (I guess I could use a form, but working from admin I'm not sure if that's possible.)</p>