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

A little late to the party..

How about not modifying the choices at all and just handling it with a widget?

from django.db.models import BLANK_CHOICE_DASH

class EmptySelect(Select):
    empty_value = BLANK_CHOICE_DASH[0]
    empty_label = BLANK_CHOICE_DASH[1]

    @property
    def choices(self):
        yield (self.empty_value, self.empty_label,)
        for choice in self._choices:
            yield choice

    @choices.setter
    def choices(self, val):
        self._choices = val

Then just call it:

class SomeForm(forms.Form):
    # thing = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Thing.objects.all(), empty_label='Label')
    color = forms.ChoiceField(choices=COLORS, widget=EmptySelect)
    year = forms.ChoiceField(choices=YEAR_CHOICES, widget=EmptySelect)

Naturally, the EmptySelect would be placed inside some kind of common/widgets.py code and then when ever you need it, just reference it.