Okay, I have a somewhat complicated form with a lot of complicated business logic, and as a result I'm actually generating fields on the fly when the form is created. I need to be able to access the fields in the template but of course since they're generated I can't just do something like {{ form.fieldname }} because in this case fieldname is actually made from a variable.

I tried something like this in the form:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    # initialization code is here, so let's just skip that
    self.items = kwargs.pop("items", [])
    self.my_fields = []
    for item in self.items:
        self.fields['item_%d' % item.pk]=forms.CharField(required=True, label=item.name)
        self.my_fields.append(self.fields['item_%d' % item.pk])

However, in the template, when I try this:

{% for field in self.my_fields %}
    {{ field }}
{% endfor %}

I get something like <django.forms.fields.CharField object at 0x2b08aeb45810>

Is there a way to do this so I can get the actual rendered field?

Update

Looks like rendered fields have a type django.forms.forms.BoundField and are created when __getitem__ is called on the field object. Basically, I guess I need some way to create something that behaves like hidden_fields only contains my field开发者_开发百科s instead.

Figured it out. In order to make sure __getitem__ was triggered, I needed to set the fields like this:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    # initialization code is here, so let's just skip that
    self.items = kwargs.pop("items", [])
    self.my_fields = []
    for item in self.items:
        self.fields['item_%d' % item.pk]=forms.CharField(required=True, label=item.name)
        self.my_fields.append(self['item_%d' % item.pk])