are the actual fields in the oracle backend a "DATE" field ? if so, pydal 
NEEDS to parse it correctly, no matter the format you want to display it.

On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 5:06:06 PM UTC+2, web2py...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What i've found is that the oracle has the date stored at 2016/04/12 and 
> when the parse occurs, it looks for a - to seperate and cant find it. This 
> is why it states that its not an integer because the "/" are included in 
> the term... is there a way to parse with "/" instead of "-"? i know SQL 
> stores date in the YYYY-MM-DD format so thats why its not an issue there, 
> but im not quite sure what to do with oracle and setting the field to 
> "date".
>
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 3:54:10 PM UTC-4, web2py...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> i keep getting this error:
>>
>> File "/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/base.py", line 1544, in 
>> parse_date
>>     (y, m, d) = map(int, str(value)[:10].strip().split('-'))
>> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '2016/04/12'
>>
>>
>> im basically submitting the form and searching a database for information 
>> between certain dates using DAL with a table. the table/date format is 
>> summarized as follows:
>>
>> import datetime
>>
>> today = datetime.datetime.today()
>>
>> yesterday = today.date() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
>>
>> db = DAL(oracle:...........)
>>
>> db.table('name', Field('startdt' , type = 'date' , default = yesterday, 
>> requires IS_DATE(format('%Y/%M/%D))),
>>
>>                        Field('enddt', type = 'date' , default = today, 
>> requires IS_DATE(format('%Y/%M/%D))),
>>
>>                        ......)
>>
>>
>> Im thinking it doesn't like the database has the format but not 100%. 
>>
>>
>> thank you
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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