> I do have another question, what would be the self.request method to
> get a date string of "11/11/2008" entered into a html field to be able
> to add it to the data store with a field of DateProperty()?
>
> for example to do the above i'm asking with integer it would be..
> greeting.age = int(self.request.get('age'))
>
> but i'm not sure what it would be for field defined as DateProperty()DateProperty expects a datetime.date value: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/typesandpropertyclasses.html#DateProperty You can convert your date string in (presumably) US date format to Python's datetime.date using this code: mystr = self.request.get('mydate') greeting.mydate = datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime (mystr, '%m/%d/%Y'))) Also, make sure you handle the parsing errors. -- www.muspy.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
