when developing a django model, I was cleaning up my code when I saw how messy the model fields look. So I implemented a sorting function.

model_fields_sorter.py

from collections import OrderedDict


def sort_model_fields(fields):

    print("BEFORE\n")
    print(fields)

    # creating a dictionary with key as length of string and value as the string itself
    dict_fields = {}
    list_fields = fields.splitlines()


    for field in list_fields:
        dict_fields[len(field)] = field


    # sorting fields
    ordered_fields = OrderedDict(sorted(dict_fields.items()))

    print("\nAFTER\n")

    for field in ordered_fields:
        print(ordered_fields[field])

# how my models.py coded looked
fields = """title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
content = models.TextField()
description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to='post_thumbnails')
draft = models.BooleanField(default=False)
slug = models.SlugField(blank=True)
author = models.CharField(max_length=30, default='mentix02', blank=True)
timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=False)"""

sort_model_fields(fields)

Never mind. I got a better solution -

fields = """title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
content = models.TextField()
description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to='post_thumbnails')
draft = models.BooleanField(default=False)
slug = models.SlugField(blank=True)
author = models.CharField(max_length=30, default='mentix02', blank=True)
timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=False)""".splitlines()

print("\n".join(sorted(fields, key=len)))

I feel dumb now.

Just use isort or black, dumbass.