Empty Label ChoiceField Django

Question

How do you make ChoiceField\'s label behave like ModelChoiceField? Is there a way to set an empty_label, or at least show a blank fiel

Answer 1

I know you already accepted an answer but I just want to post this in case someone out there runs into the issue I was having, namely the accepted solution does not work with a ValueListQuerySet. The EmptyChoiceField, which you linked to, works perfectly for me (although I am using django 1.7).

class EmptyChoiceField(forms.ChoiceField):
    def __init__(self, choices=(), empty_label=None, required=True, widget=None, label=None, initial=None, help_text=None, *args, **kwargs):

        # prepend an empty label if it exists (and field is not required!)
        if not required and empty_label is not None:
            choices = tuple([(u'', empty_label)] + list(choices))

        super(EmptyChoiceField, self).__init__(choices=choices, required=required, widget=widget, label=label, initial=initial, help_text=help_text, *args, **kwargs) 

class FilterForm(forms.ModelForm):
    #place your other fields here 
    state = EmptyChoiceField(choices=People.objects.all().values_list("state", "state").distinct(), required=False, empty_label="Show All")