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

You can show date in template by means of

{{ your_object.date_field.day }}.{{ your_object.date_field.month }}.{{ your_object.date_field.year }}