Get selected text from a form using wtforms SelectField

Question

This is a question upon the use of wtforms SelectField.

Once the form submitted, I wish to extract selected text.

I have the following form:

Answer 1

Define choices global in forms:

HOUR_CHOICES = [('1', '8am'), ('2', '10am')]

class TestForm(Form):
     hour = SelectField(u'Hour', choices=HOUR_CHOICES)

import it from forms, convert it to dict:

from .forms import HOUR_CHOICES

hour_display = dict(HOUR_CHOICES).get(form.hour.data)