How to parse date string containing mm/yyyy in django models?

Question

I'm writing existing SQLite3 database to django models. Some dates replicate themselves and I need them encoded, so I create a class in the model to store unique periods in the following form: mm/yyyy.

What would be the right syntax to set date, so in django they have the same format, but as a datetime object?

class Periods(models.Model):
    period = models.DateField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.period

Thanks in advance.

Have you tried this ? https://stackoverflow.com/a/30911955/15042684 — Thierno Amadou Sow, Sep 28 '21 at 08:26
input_formats seems to be an argument for forms.DateField() not models.DateField(), so it throws an error `TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'input_formats'` Is there any chance I can use something similar for models.DateField()? — mieltn, Sep 28 '21 at 08:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '21 at 08:39

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def __str__(self):
    return self.period.strftime('%m/%Y')

answered Sep 28 '21 at 08:39

Muhammad Shehzad

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EL hassane · Answer 2 · 2022-12-21T09:49:15.933

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Try to store the whole date in period field and in your str print only the mm/yyyy.

Like this.

def __str__(self): 
    return self.period.strftime('%m/%Y')

edited Dec 21 '22 at 09:49

answered Sep 28 '21 at 08:31

EL hassane

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How to parse date string containing mm/yyyy in django models?

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