Re: How to represent a calendar month as a field in django models

Hi, I ended up creating a custom field ( https://github.com/clearspark/django-monthfield). I used a lot of your input, thank you all. Cheers, Matthys On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-05-03 14:35, Matthys wrote: > > I posted the question also on stackoverflow: > > >

Re: How to represent a calendar month as a field in django models

Hi Erik, Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of the problems with timedelta(months=2), since the length of a month is not fixed, a length of time specified in months is ambiguous. Though months do have an internally consistent algebra as you point out and people often refer to time-periods in month

Re: How to represent a calendar month as a field in django models

Hi, I'm specifically looking at only situations where the year and month alone are significant. The downside I see with using a DateField and forcing the day to the first of the month, with custom widget etc. is that somebody looking at the database may not realize that something unusual is going

Why is ValidationError('bla').message a list

django validators in non-django projects. It is obviously possible to code around this but I am curious as why it was done like this and what others have done to get around this. Kind regards, Matthys Kroon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups