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ChoiceField doesn't display an empty label when using a tuple

Asked 2009-11-19T19:05:26.120
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What I'm trying to do

I'm going to be keeping data about competitions in my database. I want to be able to search the competitions by certain criteria - competition type in particular.

About competition types

Competition types are kept in a tuple. A slightly shortened example:

COMPETITION_TYPE_CHOICES = (
    (1, 'Olympic Games'),
    (2, 'ISU Championships'),
    (3, 'Grand Prix Series'),
)

These are used in the model like so (again - this is a shortened/simplified version of the model):

class Competition(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=256)
    type = models.IntegerField(choices=COMPETITION_TYPE_CHOICES)

The search form

I don't want the fields to be required in the search form, so the form is defined like this:

class CompetitionSearchForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(required=False)
    type = forms.ChoiceField(choices=COMPETITION_TYPE_CHOICES,required=False)

The problem

I'd like the select widget in ChoiceField to display an empty label, but I don't get one. Any help with this would be much appreciated :)

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Just a small change to Evgeniy's answer that checks if the blank alternative is not already added.

Without the check (at least when running the builtin runserver) one extra empty label is added for each page reload.

COMPETITION_TYPE_CHOICES = (
    (1, 'Olympic Games'),
    (2, 'ISU Championships'),
    (3, 'Grand Prix Series'),
)

class CompetitionSearchForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(required=False)
    type = forms.ChoiceField(choices=COMPETITION_TYPE_CHOICES,required=False)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(CompetitionSearchForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if not self.fields['type'].choices[0][0] == '':
            self.fields['type'].choices.insert(0, ('','---------' ) )
answered 2010-12-10T10:34:19.763

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