try: from collections import OrderedDict except ImportError: OrderedDict = None from django import forms import account.forms class SignupForm(account.forms.SignupForm): first_name = forms.CharField() last_name = forms.CharField() email_confirm = forms.EmailField(label="Confirm Email") def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(SignupForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) key_order = [ "email", "email_confirm", "first_name", "last_name", "password", "password_confirm" ] self.fields = reorder_fields(self.fields, key_order) def clean_email_confirm(self): email = self.cleaned_data.get("email") email_confirm = self.cleaned_data["email_confirm"] if email: if email != email_confirm: raise forms.ValidationError( "Email address must match previously typed email address") return email_confirm def reorder_fields(fields, order): """Reorder form fields by order, removing items not in order. >>> reorder_fields( ... OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)]), ... ['b', 'c', 'a']) OrderedDict([('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('a', 1)]) """ for key, v in fields.items(): if key not in order: del fields[key] if not OrderedDict or hasattr(fields, "keyOrder"): # fields is SortedDict fields.keyOrder.sort(key=lambda k: order.index(k[0])) return fields else: # fields is OrderedDict return OrderedDict(sorted(fields.items(), key=lambda k: order.index(k[0])))