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copied!<p>I'm having problem writing a simple form. This is my model for that form.</p> <pre><code>class UserStock(models.Model): amount = models.FloatField(default=0) date = models.DateTimeField('buy date') stockPrice = models.FloatField(default=0) user = models.ForeignKey(User) stock = models.ForeignKey(Stock) </code></pre> <p>This is my forms.py file</p> <pre><code>from django import forms from datetime import date class AddStockForm(forms.Form): stock = forms.CharField(max_length=10) amount = forms.FloatField(initial=0) #, initial=date.today, input_formats=settings.DATE_INPUT_FORMATS date = forms.DateField('buy date', initial=date.today) stockPrice = forms.FloatField(initial=0) </code></pre> <p>This is my first version for submitting form data.</p> <pre><code>@login_required(login_url='/login/') def new_stock(request): if request.method == 'POST': form = AddStockForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): cd = form.cleaned_data #dateForm = datetime.datetime.strptime(cd['date'],"%Y-%m-%d") userStock = UserStock(amount = cd['amount'], date=cd['date'], stockPrice = cd['StockPrice']) userStock.user = request.user stockForm = Stock.objects.filter(symbol=cd['stock']) userStock.stock = stockForm userStock.save() else: form = AddStockForm() template = loader.get_template("userStocks/new.html") context = RequestContext(request, { 'form':form.as_p(), }) return HttpResponse(template.render(context)) </code></pre> <p>This is what my error looks like. <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wi9bl.png" alt="enter image description here"> Error while submitting: Enter a valid date. I guess that it's Django's auto-check format. I googled a lot but didn't help. I have tried input_formats variations, but no luck. Thanks in advance for help.</p>

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