How do I iterate over the options of a SelectField in a template?

Answer 1

This is a cleaner solution, you can set the attributes using a custom Widget. This way you don't have to render the field manually:

class CustomSelectWidget(forms.Select):
    def create_option(self, name, value, *args, **kwargs):
        option = super().create_option(name, value, *args, **kwargs)
        if value:
            instance = self.choices.queryset.get(pk=value)  # get instance
            option['attrs']['custom_attr'] = instance.field_name  # set option attribute
        return option

class SomeForm(forms.ModelForm):
    some_field = forms.ModelChoiceField(
        queryset=SomeModel.objects.all(),
        widget=CustomSelectWidget
    )