Would you mind posting your code snippet here. I have the same issue. I thought the widget dealt with the creation of the datetime.date obj?
best regards, David On Apr 20, 4:56 am, Henrik Lied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > I just figured it out - with some help in the IRC-channel. > > I passed the form variables through datetime.date. That did the trick. > > Thanks for your reply! > > On 20 Apr, 11:44, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:09 +0000, Henrik Lied wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm creating a user registration system for a project. > > > The system uses the SelectDateWidget for user input of birthdate. > > > > When I try to register a new user, the system spits back this error: > > > 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime' > > > > This is the relevant code: > > > bd_month = frm.data['birthdate_month'] > > > bd_day = frm.data['birthdate_day'] > > > if len(bd_month) == 1: > > > bd_month = '0'+bd_month > > > if len(bd_day) == 1: > > > bd_day = '0'+bd_day > > > > temp_date = frm.data['birthdate_year']+'-'+bd_month+'-'+bd_day > > > > The error occurs in django/db/models/fields/__init__.py in > > > get_db_prep_save > > > A few more clues might be helpful. The error message is telling you that > > you're passing a string where a datetime object is expected, but you > > don't explain how you are passing data to a model field anywhere. Note > > that get_db_prep_save() is used to convert Python objects back to > > strings for putting into the database, so if your field data has not > > been already converted to a Python object by that point, a mistake has > > been made somewhere. > > > What line in the above code fragment throughs the exception? If none of > > those lines do it, how are you passing your data to the code that does > > throw the exception? Can you write a short example that shows the > > problem? > > > Regards, > > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
