DateField and output/input versus SelectDateWidget

hello everyone,


A)
if you render a DateField it renders as: YYYY/MM/DD and then
you have to 
tell the user he should use the input_format ( which is
MM/DD/YYYY by 
default) which is kind of.... duh! 

B)
if you use the SelectDateWidget (in the code but not in the
docs) it 
will only work with a string as input, and not with a
datetime.date() as 
input.
I.e. using MyClass(instance=model_instance) it will not pick
up the date 
as the DateField obviously gives you a datetime and not a
string.


Does anyone know of a way of fixing either? 


cheerio!


  - bram

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On Dec 19, 3:16 pm, Bram - Smartelectronix <b...smartelectronix.com>
wrote:
> hello everyone,
>
> A)
> if you render a DateField it renders as: YYYY/MM/DD and
then you have to
> tell the user he should use the input_format ( which is
MM/DD/YYYY by
> default) which is kind of.... duh! 

I wrote some code a while a go that adresses this issue. I
don't know
if the attacted patch still applies cleanly to trunk. If it
doesn't,
just let me know if you're interested, and I'll try and fix
it.

http://code
.djangoproject.com/ticket/5526

> B)
> if you use the SelectDateWidget (in the code but not in
the docs) it
> will only work with a string as input, and not with a
datetime.date() as
> input.
> I.e. using MyClass(instance=model_instance) it will not
pick up the date
> as the DateField obviously gives you a datetime and not
a string.
>

This is not in sync with the regular date/time widgets found
in
django.newforms.widgets. Please report this in trac.

Regards,

Jan
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