Django: How to format a DateField's date representation?

Question

I have a form with a DateField. The existing date value is formatted to render like this:

2009-10-03

How can I format that so that it look like

Answer 1

Subclass custom field like this:

class CustomDateField(forms.DateField):
  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    kwargs.setdefault('input_formats', ("%d.%m.%Y",))
    super(CustomDateField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)