[Answer]-Django forms processing dynamic field labels

I’ve done this previously by creating an array attached to the form with the dynamically generated fields and then just iterate over that.

Alternatively you could put the objects.get(…) in a try/except block:

try:
    Classes.objects.get(class_name=field)
except:
    pass
else:
    newentry = Entry(
        athlete = athlete,
        event = event,
        athlete_class = Classes.objects.filter(class_name=field)
        )

The reason why the if statement doesn’t work is that the following block is not indented correctly. This should work also (note the parenthesis after the count):

if Classes.objects.get(class_name=field).count() > 0:
    newentry = Entry(
        athlete = athlete,
        event = event,
        athlete_class = Classes.objects.filter(class_name=field)
        )