Django: How to set DateField to only accept Today & Future dates

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Emile picture Emile · Feb 9, 2011 · Viewed 15.9k times · Source

I have been looking for ways to set my Django form to only accept dates that are today or days in the future. I currently have a jQuery datepicker on the frontend, but here is the form field to a modelform.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

date = forms.DateField(
    label=_("What day?"),
    widget=forms.TextInput(),
    required=True)

Answer

Arnaud picture Arnaud · Feb 9, 2011

You could add a clean() method in your form to ensure that the date is not in the past.

import datetime

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    date = forms.DateField(...)

    def clean_date(self):
        date = self.cleaned_data['date']
        if date < datetime.date.today():
            raise forms.ValidationError("The date cannot be in the past!")
        return date

See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/validation/#cleaning-a-specific-field-attribute

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