Django: how to exclude the bogus option '----' from select element generated from modal form field?

Question

models.py:

class Foo(models.Model):
    ...
    TIME_UNIT_TYPE = (
        (\'D\', \'Day\'),
        (\'W\', \'Week\'),
        (\'M\', \'Month\'),
    )
            


        

Answer 1

Try with:

from django.forms import ModelForm
from django import forms as forms

class FooForm(ModelForm):
    time_unit = forms.forms.TypedChoiceField( 
                    required=True,
                    choices = Foo.TIME_UNIT_TYPE
                )    
    class Meta:
        model = Foo
        fields = (time_unit,)

              

Test if this works for you.

Answer 2

None that are particularly easier/less code. You could alternatively create your own Field for your time_unit, extend the _get_choices() method of the default ChoiceField and use it on your time_unit model field if you thought that was cleaner but that's much more work