Drop label from serializer fields when not needed

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 33ab0682..1818e705 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ def set_value(dictionary, keys, value):
     dictionary[keys[-1]] = value
 
 
+def field_name_to_label(field_name):
+    return field_name.replace('_', ' ').capitalize()
+
+
 class SkipField(Exception):
     pass
 
@@ -158,7 +162,7 @@ class Field(object):
 
         # `self.label` should deafult to being based on the field name.
         if self.label is None:
-            self.label = self.field_name.replace('_', ' ').capitalize()
+            self.label = field_name_to_label(self.field_name)
 
         # self.source should default to being the same as the field name.
         if self.source is None: