id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 5917 django.newforms.extras.widgets.SelectDateWidget Camille Harang Chris Beaven "Hi, django.newforms.extras.widgets.SelectDateWidget is not correctly passing the previous selected value to the HTML renderer because it sometimes receives the value as a datetime.date field or a unicode string. The code only handles it as unicode, it splits it and converts it to datetime.date, so when it receives it directly as a datetime.date try/except resets the default value as None : {{{ def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): try: value = datetime.date(*map(int, value.split('-'))) year_val, month_val, day_val = value.year, value.month, value.day except (AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError): year_val = month_val = day_val = None }}} I added a type value test and now it works: {{{ def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): try: if type(value) == type(u''): value = datetime.date(*map(int, value.split('-'))) year_val, month_val, day_val = value.year, value.month, value.day except (AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError): year_val = month_val = day_val = None }}} Regards. Camille. " closed Forms dev fixed newforms widgets SelectDateWidget Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0 0 0