[Fixed]-Django days-of-week representation in model

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If you want a checkbox for each one, then the easiest thing to do is to create BooleanFields for each of them. If you want to store it as a more complex value (eg. comma separated list or something), create your own widget and play with javascript, then you could go that route.

👤Bryce Siedschlaw

26👍

You may want to create DayOfTheWeek field type, which you can improve in various ways.

This code cause to translate automatically into the local language using the multilingual tools.

#myFields.py
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

DAY_OF_THE_WEEK = {
    '1' : _(u'Monday'),
    '2' : _(u'Tuesday'),
    '3' : _(u'Wednesday'),
    '4' : _(u'Thursday'),
    '5' : _(u'Friday'),
    '6' : _(u'Saturday'), 
    '7' : _(u'Sunday'),
}

class DayOfTheWeekField(models.CharField):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['choices']=tuple(sorted(DAY_OF_THE_WEEK.items()))
        kwargs['max_length']=1 
        super(DayOfTheWeekField,self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

#models.py
import myFields
(..)
    dayOfTheWeek = myFields.DayOfTheWeekField()
(..)
👤MUY Belgium

23👍

Something like this would work. 

#models.py
DAYS_OF_WEEK = (
    (0, 'Monday'),
    (1, 'Tuesday'),
    (2, 'Wednesday'),
    (3, 'Thursday'),
    (4, 'Friday'),
    (5, 'Saturday'),
    (6, 'Sunday'),
)

days = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=DAYS_OF_WEEK

#forms.py
widgets = { 'days': forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple }

Or to save multiple days

#models.py
class Days(models.Model):
    day = models.CharField(max_length=8)

days = models.ManyToManyField(Days)

#forms.py
widgets = { 'days': forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple }
👤silent1mezzo

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Just implemented django-weekday-field. Works great!
Hopefully this helps other people who stumble upon this question

EDIT: updated link to pypi since the bitbucket repo was deleted.

It hasn’t been updated since 2014 but looking at the code is a great way to get started on answering this question

👤Regneel

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