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Django's form library has a feature of form sets that allow you to process dynamically added forms. For example you would use form sets if your application has a list of bookmarks you could use form sets to process multiple forms that each represent a bookmark.
What about if you want to dynamically add a field to a form? An example would be a survey creation page where you can dynamically add an unlimited number of questions. How do you handle this in Django?
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To dynamically add field to a form with Python Django, we can add the form with a for loop. to create the MyForm form that has a for loop in the __init__ method that creates CharField s and add them into the self. fields dictionary dynamically. We set the extra argument to a list we get from request.
The flexibility of Python and Django allow developers to dynamically create models to store and access data using Django's ORM.
A formset is a layer of abstraction to work with multiple forms on the same page. It can be best compared to a data grid. Let's say you have the following form: >>> from django import forms >>> class ArticleForm(forms.
Look at this recent post by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the original founders of Django: "Dynamic form generation". It uses an example to show you the process step by step. Great read.
There is also a 2008 article by James Bennett, Django's release manager.
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