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

Alternate methods for changing the field order:

Pop-and-insert:

self.fields.insert(0, 'name', self.fields.pop('name'))

Pop-and-append:

self.fields['summary'] = self.fields.pop('summary')
self.fields['description'] = self.fields.pop('description')

Pop-and-append-all:

for key in ('name', 'summary', 'description'):
    self.fields[key] = self.fields.pop(key)

Ordered-copy:

self.fields = SortedDict( [ (key, self.fields[key])
                            for key in ('name', 'summary' ,'description') ] )

But Selene's approach from the Django CookBook still feels clearest of all.