selectdatewidget set default month and day

Question

How can I set selectDateWidget day and month options to default as 1st January but leave the year option intact.

Now I am doing:

day = datetime.date.today()
lessTime = forms.DateField(required=False, widget=SelectDateWidget(years=range(1980, 2013)), initial=day)

But this sets the default to the actual date. What can I change to give me the desired default options?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Make a custom widget e.g MySelectDateWidget

class MySelectDateWidget(SelectDateWidget):
    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        from collections import namedtuple
        date_tweak = namedtuple('Date', 'year month day')
        date_value = date_tweak(None, 1, 1) #tweak to cheat SelectDateWidget's 
                                   #render method which expects a datetime object
        return super(MySelectDateWidget, self).render(name, date_value, attrs)

and then replace:

lessTime = forms.DateField(required=False,    
          widget=SelectDateWidget(years=range(1980, 2013)), initial=day)

with:

lessTime = forms.DateField(required=False,          
                           widget=MySelectDateWidget(years=range(1980, 2013)))