[1.11.x] Fixed #27866 -- Made ChoiceWidget.format_value() return a list

Thanks Tim Graham for the review.
Backport of e487ffd3f0f9931e7c18bfbd47cf1e6b059ddc41 from master.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/django/forms/widgets.py b/django/forms/widgets.py
index 7e4206a00b..fe30139ac8 100644
--- a/django/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/django/forms/widgets.py
@@ -647,16 +647,10 @@ class ChoiceWidget(Widget):
         return getter(name)
 
     def format_value(self, value):
-        """Return selected values as a set."""
+        """Return selected values as a list."""
         if not isinstance(value, (tuple, list)):
             value = [value]
-        values = set()
-        for v in value:
-            if v is None:
-                values.add('')
-            else:
-                values.add(force_text(v))
-        return values
+        return [str(v) if v is not None else '' for v in value]
 
 
 class Select(ChoiceWidget):