The BaseForm.__init__ sets self.fields to self.base_fields.copy()
before your __init__ is run. The correct way to change the label is:
class TestForm(forms.Form):
somefield = forms.IntegerField(label='foo')
On Jan 30, 1:06 pm, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using a Newforms subclass, and trying to dynamically generate the labels
> for each field at runtime (long story, but it really does make sense for
> what we're doing). Apparently I'm doing something wrong, though, because I
> always end up with the default label text and not what I'm specifying. For
> example:
>
> class TestForm(forms.Form):
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> super(ArrivalForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
> self.base_fields['somefield'].label = 'foo'
>
> somefield = forms.IntegerField()
>
> This doesn't have the behavior I'd expect of changing somefield's label
> from 'Somefield' to 'foo'. Is this possible?
> --
> Kirk Strauser
>
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