Change a Django form field to a hidden field

Question

I have a Django form with a RegexField, which is very similar to a normal text input field.

In my view, under certain conditions I want to hide it from

Answer 1

If you have a custom template and view you may exclude the field and use {{ modelform.instance.field }} to get the value.

also you may prefer to use in the view:

form.fields['field_name'].widget = forms.HiddenInput()

but I'm not sure it will protect save method on post.

Hope it helps.