Django snippets

from django import forms
import dateutil.parser

class FuzzyDateTimeField(forms.Field):
	'''Like a DateTimeField, but uses dateutil.parser to parse datetime.'''
	def __init__(self, widget=forms.DateTimeInput, fuzzy=True, **kwargs):
		forms.Field.__init__(self, widget=widget, **kwargs)
		self.fuzzy = fuzzy
	
	def clean(self, val):
		super(FuzzyDateTimeField, self).clean(val)
		
		if not val:
			return None
		elif isinstance(val, datetime.datetime):
			return val
		
		try:
			return dateutil.parser.parse(val.strip(), fuzzy=self.fuzzy)
		except ValueError, err:
			raise forms.ValidationError(*err.args)