[Answered ]-__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'widget'

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forms.Select is a widget, it is not a Field and it doesn’t have a widget argument. This is what the error is reporting about. This is what you basically have:

>>> from django import forms
>>> forms.Select(widget=forms.Select)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'widget'

Instead, you meant to have a ChoiceField with a Select widget:

TableName = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'selector'}))

See also Daniel’s example here:

👤alecxe

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Another possibility when receiving this error message is that Django has different types of fields when dealing with db models and form models. Make sure that your includes are in the correct order; include forms AFTER models. If you do something along the lines of:

from models import *
from django.forms import *

This will force the Form’s field objects to be used instead of the Model’s field objects which DO have the widget keyword.

👤Fydo

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