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

Based on an answer by @akaihola and updated to work with latest Django 1.5 as self.fields.insert is being depreciated.

from easycontactus.forms import *
from django import forms
class  CustomEasyContactUsForm(EasyContactUsForm):
    ### form settings and configuration
    CAPTHCA_PHRASE = 'igolf'

    ### native methods
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(CustomEasyContactUsForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # re-order placement of added attachment field 
        self.fields.keyOrder.insert(self.fields.keyOrder.index('captcha'),
                                    self.fields.keyOrder.pop(self.fields.keyOrder.index('attachment'))
                                    )

    ### field defintitions
    attachment = forms.FileField()

In the above we are extending an EasyContactUsForm base class as it is defined in django-easycontactus package.