How to stop auto-capitalization of verbose_name in django

Question

How to prevent Django from auto-capitalizing of the verbose_name in models? E.g:

class TestModel(models.Model):
    enb_id = models.IntegerField(null=True, v         


        

Answer 1

I believe that the "most correct" answer in modern Django (v1.11+) is to do the following:

class TestModel(models.Model):
    field_name = models.CharField(verbose_name=_('field name'), blank=True)


class TestModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = TestModel
        fields = '__all__'
        labels = {
            'field_name': _('field name')
        }

This doesn't require you to define a custom model field just to change the form, use custom CSS, or hack around browser behavior. It's laser-targeted to only change the string that gets sent to the form renderer for that one field, with absolutely no other potential knock-on effects.