Django forms, inheritance and order of form fields

Question

I\'m using Django forms in my website and would like to control the order of the fields.

Here\'s how I define my forms:

class edit_form(forms.Form):
         


        

Answer 1

It appears that at some point the underlying structure of field order was changed from a django specific SordedDict to a python standard OrderedDict

Thus, in 1.7 I had to do the following:

from collections import OrderedDict

class MyForm(forms.Form):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        original_fields = self.fields
        new_order = OrderedDict()
        for key in ['first', 'second', ... 'last']:
            new_order[key] = original_fields[key]
        self.fields = new_order

I'm sure someone could golf that into two or three lines, but for S.O. purposes I think clearly showing how it works is better than cleaver.