Customize/remove Django select box blank option

Question

I\'m using Django 1.0.2. I\'ve written a ModelForm backed by a Model. This model has a ForeignKey where blank=False. When Django generates HTML for this form it creates a

Answer 1

I was messing around with this today and just came up with a coward hack nifty solution:

# Cowardly handle ModelChoiceField empty label
# we all hate that '-----' thing
class ModelChoiceField_init_hack(object):
    @property
    def empty_label(self):
        return self._empty_label

    @empty_label.setter
    def empty_label(self, value):
        self._empty_label = value
        if value and value.startswith('-'):
            self._empty_label = 'Select an option'
ModelChoiceField.__bases__ += (ModelChoiceField_init_hack,)

Now you can tweak the default ModelChoiceField empty label to anything you'd like. :-)

PS: No need for downvotes, non-harmful monkey patches are always handy.