Django: what’s new in 5.2. Adam Johnson provides extremely detailed unofficial annotated release notes for the latest Django.
I found his explanation and example of Form BoundField customization particularly useful - here's the new pattern for customizing the class=
attribute on the label associated with a CharField
:
from django import forms class WideLabelBoundField(forms.BoundField): def label_tag(self, contents=None, attrs=None, label_suffix=None): if attrs is None: attrs = {} attrs["class"] = "wide" return super().label_tag(contents, attrs, label_suffix) class NebulaForm(forms.Form): name = forms.CharField( max_length=100, label="Nebula Name", bound_field_class=WideLabelBoundField, )
I'd also missed the new HttpResponse.get_preferred_type() method for implementing HTTP content negotiation:
content_type = request.get_preferred_type( ["text/html", "application/json"] )
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