A problem with WEEKDAYS_ABBR in dates.py (Django version 1.0)

[Leo Putkonen]

I noticed this problem while playing around with ​Django tutorial (part 2).

A button in the admin site interface calls WEEKDAYS_ABBR in dates.py and raises ImportError. This happens because WEEKDAYS_ABBR is not defined in dates.py located at /site-packages/django/utils/

A simple fix is to add a couple of lines to dates.py

WEEKDAYS_ABBR = {
    0:_('Mon'), 1:_('Tue'), 2:_('Wed'), 3:_('Thu'), 4:_('Fri'),
    5:_('Sat'), 6:_('Sun')
}

Complete Traceback:

Django version 1.0-final-SVN-unknown, using settings 'mysite.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
[15/Sep/2008 05:52:08] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3398
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 277, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 634, in __call__
    return self.application(environ, start_response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 239, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 128, in get_response
    return self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, exc_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 148, in handle_uncaught_exception
    return debug.technical_500_response(request, *exc_info)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/views/debug.py", line 39, in technical_500_response
    html = reporter.get_traceback_html()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/views/debug.py", line 113, in get_traceback_html
    return t.render(c)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 176, in render
    return self.nodelist.render(context)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 768, in render
    bits.append(self.render_node(node, context))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 81, in render_node
    raise wrapped
TemplateSyntaxError: Caught an exception while rendering: cannot import name WEEKDAYS_ABBR

Original Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 71, in render_node
    result = node.render(context)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/debug.py", line 87, in render
    output = force_unicode(self.filter_expression.resolve(context))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 559, in resolve
    new_obj = func(obj, *arg_vals)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/defaultfilters.py", line 626, in date
    from django.utils.dateformat import format
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/utils/dateformat.py", line 14, in <module>
    from django.utils.dates import MONTHS, MONTHS_3, MONTHS_AP, WEEKDAYS, WEEKDAYS_ABBR
ImportError: cannot import name WEEKDAYS_ABBR