I'm using a form created with SQLFORM.factory as an edit form (it
saves from and loads to session).
If I have a field of type 'date', the value that it saves is in the
usual ISO format, a string like '2009-01-01'.
But if I then try to use that saved value as the default for the field
in the factory constructor,
such as
Field('mydate', 'date', default='2009-01-01'),
it gives me the following error:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime'
So, my first question is - wouldn't it be a good idea to let date
fields take defaults as strings, for this exact usage scenario - a
round trip of saving and loading?
Ok, so I figured this meant that date fields expected python date
objects as defaults.
When I search for how to create date objects from string, most posts
recommend using dateutil.parser.
But that means installing another package on the server, something I'm
reluctant to do unless absolutely necessary. And the framework must
already have some way of parsing strings into dates, but what is it?
So what's the correct way of using a date string to create a default
for a date field?
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