django forms dateField fails validation

Question

I am trying to validate a User Profiling form in django and I can\'t. It seems that there is something wrong with forms.dateField(). It does not validate (ie. is_valid() ret

Answer 1

input formats in DateField must be list or tuple https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.DateField.input_formats

Answer 2

With Django 1.6 and up you can use the localized_fields in your form's Meta or localize=True in your form. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/i18n/formatting/#format-localization.

When using USE_L10N = True, Django will use the formats.py file for your locale (part of LANGUAGE_CODE).

You can end up with something DRY like this (as the fields specified in models.py do not need to be repeated in forms.py):

class SomeForm(forms.Form):

    class Meta:
        model = SomeModel
        fields = ('first_name', 'dob',)
        localized_fields = ('dob',)