Excerpt from django forms/extras/widgets.py

widgets-excerpt.py

class SelectDateWidget(Widget):
    """
    A Widget that splits date input into three <select> boxes.

    This also serves as an example of a Widget that has more than one HTML
    element and hence implements value_from_datadict.
    """
    none_value = (0, '---')
    month_field = '%s_month'
    day_field = '%s_day'
    year_field = '%s_year'

    def __init__(self, attrs=None, years=None, required=True):
        # years is an optional list/tuple of years to use in the "year" select box.
        self.attrs = attrs or {}
        self.required = required
        if years:
            self.years = years
        else:
            this_year = datetime.date.today().year
            self.years = range(this_year, this_year+10)

    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        try:
            year_val, month_val, day_val = value.year, value.month, value.day
        except AttributeError:
            year_val = month_val = day_val = None
            if isinstance(value, basestring):
                if settings.USE_L10N:
                    try:
                        input_format = get_format('DATE_INPUT_FORMATS')[0]
                        v = datetime.datetime.strptime(value, input_format)
                        year_val, month_val, day_val = v.year, v.month, v.day
                    except ValueError:
                        pass
                else:
                    match = RE_DATE.match(value)
                    if match:
                        year_val, month_val, day_val = [int(v) for v in match.groups()]
        choices = [(i, i) for i in self.years]
        year_html = self.create_select(name, self.year_field, value, year_val, choices)
        choices = MONTHS.items()
        month_html = self.create_select(name, self.month_field, value, month_val, choices)
        choices = [(i, i) for i in range(1, 32)]
        day_html = self.create_select(name, self.day_field, value, day_val,  choices)

        output = []
        for field in _parse_date_fmt():
            if field == 'year':
                output.append(year_html)
            elif field == 'month':
                output.append(month_html)
            elif field == 'day':
                output.append(day_html)
        return mark_safe(u'\n'.join(output))