How does Django Know the Order to Render Form Fields?

Question

If I have a Django form such as:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
    message = forms.CharField()
    sender = fo         


        

Answer 1

Use a counter in the Field class. Sort by that counter:

import operator
import itertools

class Field(object):
    _counter = itertools.count()
    def __init__(self):
        self.count = Field._counter.next()
        self.name = ''
    def __repr__(self):
        return "Field(%r)" % self.name

class MyForm(object):
    b = Field()
    a = Field()
    c = Field()

    def __init__(self):
        self.fields = []
        for field_name in dir(self):
            field = getattr(self, field_name)
            if isinstance(field, Field):
                field.name = field_name
                self.fields.append(field)
        self.fields.sort(key=operator.attrgetter('count'))

m = MyForm()
print m.fields # in defined order

Output:

[Field('b'), Field('a'), Field('c')]

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