Question

I have a choice field like this in my forms.py:

ASSUNTO = ( ('1', u'Informações'), 
        ('2', 'Comercial'), 
        ('3', 'Financeiro'), 
        ('4', 'Outro'))

In my views.py when I send the chosen value from the choice field as e-mail subject, it comes like:

Chose ‘Comercial‘ in my form in my html page

E-mail received with subject like: ‘2 – MY COMPANY‘

Code in my views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from forms import FormContato
from django.core.mail import send_mail


def HomeContato(request):
    form = FormContato()
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = FormContato(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            send_mail( form.cleaned_data['assunto'] + ' - MY COMPANY', 'Nome: ' + form.data['nome'] + ' ' + form.data['sobrenome'] + ' :: ' + 'E-mail: ' + form.data['email'] + ' :: ' + 'Mensagem: ' + form.data['menssagem'], '[e-mail]', ['[e-mail]'], fail_silently=False)
            return render(request, 'contato/contato.html', locals())
        else:
            return render(request, 'contato/contato.html', locals())
    else:
        return render(request, 'contato/contato.html', locals())

How can I use this command getting the subject as: ‘Comercial – MY COMPANY’?

Thanks in advance to all!

Answer 1

This isnt very pretty, but the following should do it:

{choice[0]:choice[1] for choice in form.fields['assunto'].choices}[form.cleaned_data['assunto']]

NOTE: after reading the other answer, you could do dict(form.fields['assunto'].choices)[form.cleaned_data['assunto']] – I didnt think to use a builtin function instead of a comprehension

Also the reason you are getting “2” is that the choices tuple is a tuple of value => label tuples.

if you want the value to not be a meaningless integer, make it like this:

ASSUNTO = ( (u'Informações', u'Informações'), 
    ('Comercial', 'Comercial'), 
    ('Financeiro', 'Financeiro'), 
    ('Outro', 'Outro'))

and then keep your view the same as you currently have it