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+                      <a href="#accessing-the-initial-data-and-instance">Accessing the initial data and instance</a>
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                       <a href="#partial-updates">Partial updates</a>
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 <p>For more information see the <a href="../validators">validators documentation</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="accessing-the-initial-data-and-instance">Accessing the initial data and instance</h2>
+<p>When passing an initial object or queryset to a serializer instance, the object will be made available as <code>.instance</code>. If no initial object is passed then the <code>.instance</code> attribute will be <code>None</code>.</p>
+<p>When passing data to a serializer instance, the unmodified data will be made available as <code>.initial_data</code>. If the data keyword argument is not passed then the <code>.initial_data</code> attribute will not exist.</p>
 <h2 id="partial-updates">Partial updates</h2>
 <p>By default, serializers must be passed values for all required fields or they will raise validation errors. You can use the <code>partial</code> argument in order to allow partial updates.</p>
 <pre><code># Update `comment` with partial data