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FuzzyDateTimeField

Author:
japerk
Posted:
April 9, 2009
Language:
Python
Version:
1.0
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FuzzyDateTimeField is a drop in replacement for the standard DateTimeField that uses dateutil.parser to clean the value. It has an extra keyword argument fuzzy=True, which allows it to be more liberal with the input formats it accepts. Set fuzzy=False for more strict validation.

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from django import forms
import dateutil.parser

class FuzzyDateTimeField(forms.Field):
	'''Like a DateTimeField, but uses dateutil.parser to parse datetime.'''
	def __init__(self, widget=forms.DateTimeInput, fuzzy=True, **kwargs):
		forms.Field.__init__(self, widget=widget, **kwargs)
		self.fuzzy = fuzzy
	
	def clean(self, val):
		super(FuzzyDateTimeField, self).clean(val)
		
		if not val:
			return None
		elif isinstance(val, datetime.datetime):
			return val
		
		try:
			return dateutil.parser.parse(val.strip(), fuzzy=self.fuzzy)
		except ValueError, err:
			raise forms.ValidationError(*err.args)

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