On Tue, 17 May 2005 16:44:12 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Thomas W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm developing a web-application where the user sometimes has to enter >> dates in plain text, allthough a format may be provided to give clues. >> On the server side this piece of text has to be parsed into a datetime >> python-object. Does anybody have any pointers on this? > >Why are you making it possible for the users to screw this up? Don't >give them a text widget to fill in and you have to figure out what the >format is, give them three widgets so you *know* what's what. > >In doing that, you can also go to dropdown widgets for month, with >month names (in a locale appropriate for the page language), and for >the days in the month. My experience: drop-down lists generate off-by-one errors. They also annoy the bejaysus out of users -- e.g. year of birth, a 60+ element list. It's quite possible of course that YMMV :-) BTW: I have seen a web page with a drop-down list for year of birth where the first 18 entries were <current year>, <current year - 1>, etc for a transaction that wasn't for minors. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
