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Signal.connect(receiver, sender=None, weak=True, dispatch_uid=None) [source] Parameters: receiver – The callback function which will be connected to this signal. See Receiver functions for more information. sender – Specifies a particular sender to receive signals from. See Connecting to signals sent by speci...
django.topics.signals#django.dispatch.Signal.connect
Signal.disconnect(receiver=None, sender=None, dispatch_uid=None) [source]
django.topics.signals#django.dispatch.Signal.disconnect
Signal.send(sender, **kwargs) [source]
django.topics.signals#django.dispatch.Signal.send
Signal.send_robust(sender, **kwargs) [source]
django.topics.signals#django.dispatch.Signal.send_robust
django.contrib.auth This document provides API reference material for the components of Django’s authentication system. For more details on the usage of these components or how to customize authentication and authorization see the authentication topic guide. User model class models.User Fields class models.User ...
django.ref.contrib.auth
django.contrib.humanize A set of Django template filters useful for adding a “human touch” to data. To activate these filters, add 'django.contrib.humanize' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting. Once you’ve done that, use {% load humanize %} in a template, and you’ll have access to the following filters. apnumber For numbers...
django.ref.contrib.humanize
django.contrib.postgres PostgreSQL has a number of features which are not shared by the other databases Django supports. This optional module contains model fields and form fields for a number of PostgreSQL specific data types. Note Django is, and will continue to be, a database-agnostic web framework. We would encour...
django.ref.contrib.postgres.index
class FlatpageFallbackMiddleware Each time any Django application raises a 404 error, this middleware checks the flatpages database for the requested URL as a last resort. Specifically, it checks for a flatpage with the given URL with a site ID that corresponds to the SITE_ID setting. If it finds a match, it follows ...
django.ref.contrib.flatpages#django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware
class FlatPage Flatpages are represented by a standard Django model, which lives in django/contrib/flatpages/models.py. You can access flatpage objects via the Django database API.
django.ref.contrib.flatpages#django.contrib.flatpages.models.FlatPage
class FlatPageSitemap The sitemaps.FlatPageSitemap class looks at all publicly visible flatpages defined for the current SITE_ID (see the sites documentation) and creates an entry in the sitemap. These entries include only the location attribute – not lastmod, changefreq or priority.
django.ref.contrib.flatpages#django.contrib.flatpages.sitemaps.FlatPageSitemap
Forms Detailed form API reference. For introductory material, see the Working with forms topic guide. The Forms API Bound and unbound forms Using forms to validate data Initial form values Checking which form data has changed Accessing the fields from the form Accessing “clean” data Outputting forms as HTML More gran...
django.ref.forms.index
class BooleanField(**kwargs) Default widget: CheckboxInput Empty value: False Normalizes to: A Python True or False value. Validates that the value is True (e.g. the check box is checked) if the field has required=True. Error message keys: required Note Since all Field subclasses have required=True by default, ...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.BooleanField
class BoundField Used to display HTML or access attributes for a single field of a Form instance. The __str__() method of this object displays the HTML for this field.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField
BoundField.as_hidden(attrs=None, **kwargs) Returns a string of HTML for representing this as an <input type="hidden">. **kwargs are passed to as_widget(). This method is primarily used internally. You should use a widget instead.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.as_hidden
BoundField.as_widget(widget=None, attrs=None, only_initial=False) Renders the field by rendering the passed widget, adding any HTML attributes passed as attrs. If no widget is specified, then the field’s default widget will be used. only_initial is used by Django internals and should not be set explicitly.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.as_widget
BoundField.auto_id The HTML ID attribute for this BoundField. Returns an empty string if Form.auto_id is False.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.auto_id
BoundField.css_classes(extra_classes=None) When you use Django’s rendering shortcuts, CSS classes are used to indicate required form fields or fields that contain errors. If you’re manually rendering a form, you can access these CSS classes using the css_classes method: >>> f = ContactForm(data={'message': ''}) >>> f...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.css_classes
BoundField.data This property returns the data for this BoundField extracted by the widget’s value_from_datadict() method, or None if it wasn’t given: >>> unbound_form = ContactForm() >>> print(unbound_form['subject'].data) None >>> bound_form = ContactForm(data={'subject': 'My Subject'}) >>> print(bound_form['subjec...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.data
BoundField.errors A list-like object that is displayed as an HTML <ul class="errorlist"> when printed: >>> data = {'subject': 'hi', 'message': '', 'sender': '', 'cc_myself': ''} >>> f = ContactForm(data, auto_id=False) >>> print(f['message']) <input type="text" name="message" required> >>> f['message'].errors ['This ...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.errors
BoundField.field The form Field instance from the form class that this BoundField wraps.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.field
BoundField.form The Form instance this BoundField is bound to.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.form
BoundField.help_text The help_text of the field.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.help_text
BoundField.html_name The name that will be used in the widget’s HTML name attribute. It takes the form prefix into account.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.html_name
BoundField.id_for_label Use this property to render the ID of this field. For example, if you are manually constructing a <label> in your template (despite the fact that label_tag() will do this for you): <label for="{{ form.my_field.id_for_label }}">...</label>{{ my_field }} By default, this will be the field’s nam...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.id_for_label
BoundField.initial Use BoundField.initial to retrieve initial data for a form field. It retrieves the data from Form.initial if present, otherwise trying Field.initial. Callable values are evaluated. See Initial form values for more examples. BoundField.initial caches its return value, which is useful especially when...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.initial
BoundField.is_hidden Returns True if this BoundField’s widget is hidden.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.is_hidden
BoundField.label The label of the field. This is used in label_tag().
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.label
BoundField.label_tag(contents=None, attrs=None, label_suffix=None) Renders a label tag for the form field using the template specified by Form.template_name_label. The available context is: field: This instance of the BoundField. contents: By default a concatenated string of BoundField.label and Form.label_suffix ...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.label_tag
BoundField.name The name of this field in the form: >>> f = ContactForm() >>> print(f['subject'].name) subject >>> print(f['message'].name) message
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.name
BoundField.value() Use this method to render the raw value of this field as it would be rendered by a Widget: >>> initial = {'subject': 'welcome'} >>> unbound_form = ContactForm(initial=initial) >>> bound_form = ContactForm(data={'subject': 'hi'}, initial=initial) >>> print(unbound_form['subject'].value()) welcome >>...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.value
BoundField.widget_type Returns the lowercased class name of the wrapped field’s widget, with any trailing input or widget removed. This may be used when building forms where the layout is dependent upon the widget type. For example: {% for field in form %} {% if field.widget_type == 'checkbox' %} # render...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.BoundField.widget_type
class CharField(**kwargs) Default widget: TextInput Empty value: Whatever you’ve given as empty_value. Normalizes to: A string. Uses MaxLengthValidator and MinLengthValidator if max_length and min_length are provided. Otherwise, all inputs are valid. Error message keys: required, max_length, min_length Has four o...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.CharField
empty_value The value to use to represent “empty”. Defaults to an empty string.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.CharField.empty_value
max_length
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.CharField.max_length
min_length If provided, these arguments ensure that the string is at most or at least the given length.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.CharField.min_length
strip If True (default), the value will be stripped of leading and trailing whitespace.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.CharField.strip
class CheckboxInput input_type: 'checkbox' template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/checkbox.html' Renders as: <input type="checkbox" ...> Takes one optional argument: check_test A callable that takes the value of the CheckboxInput and returns True if the checkbox should be checked for that value.
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.CheckboxInput
check_test A callable that takes the value of the CheckboxInput and returns True if the checkbox should be checked for that value.
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.CheckboxInput.check_test
class CheckboxSelectMultiple template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/checkbox_select.html' option_template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/checkbox_option.html' Similar to SelectMultiple, but rendered as a list of checkboxes: <div> <div><input type="checkbox" name="..." ></div> ... </div> The outer <div> containe...
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple
class ChoiceField(**kwargs) Default widget: Select Empty value: '' (an empty string) Normalizes to: A string. Validates that the given value exists in the list of choices. Error message keys: required, invalid_choice The invalid_choice error message may contain %(value)s, which will be replaced with the selected ...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.ChoiceField
choices Either an iterable of 2-tuples to use as choices for this field, enumeration choices, or a callable that returns such an iterable. This argument accepts the same formats as the choices argument to a model field. See the model field reference documentation on choices for more details. If the argument is a call...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.ChoiceField.choices
class ClearableFileInput template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/clearable_file_input.html' Renders as: <input type="file" ...> with an additional checkbox input to clear the field’s value, if the field is not required and has initial data.
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.ClearableFileInput
class ComboField(**kwargs) Default widget: TextInput Empty value: '' (an empty string) Normalizes to: A string. Validates the given value against each of the fields specified as an argument to the ComboField. Error message keys: required, invalid Takes one extra required argument: fields The list of fields th...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.ComboField
fields The list of fields that should be used to validate the field’s value (in the order in which they are provided). >>> from django.forms import ComboField >>> f = ComboField(fields=[CharField(max_length=20), EmailField()]) >>> f.clean('test@example.com') 'test@example.com' >>> f.clean('longemailaddress@example.co...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.ComboField.fields
class DateField(**kwargs) Default widget: DateInput Empty value: None Normalizes to: A Python datetime.date object. Validates that the given value is either a datetime.date, datetime.datetime or string formatted in a particular date format. Error message keys: required, invalid Takes one optional argument: inp...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DateField
input_formats A list of formats used to attempt to convert a string to a valid datetime.date object.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DateField.input_formats
class DateInput input_type: 'text' template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/date.html' Renders as: <input type="text" ...> Takes same arguments as TextInput, with one more optional argument: format The format in which this field’s initial value will be displayed. If no format argument is provided, the defaul...
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.DateInput
format The format in which this field’s initial value will be displayed.
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.DateInput.format
class DateTimeField(**kwargs) Default widget: DateTimeInput Empty value: None Normalizes to: A Python datetime.datetime object. Validates that the given value is either a datetime.datetime, datetime.date or string formatted in a particular datetime format. Error message keys: required, invalid Takes one optional...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DateTimeField
input_formats A list of formats used to attempt to convert a string to a valid datetime.datetime object, in addition to ISO 8601 formats.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DateTimeField.input_formats
class DateTimeInput input_type: 'text' template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/datetime.html' Renders as: <input type="text" ...> Takes same arguments as TextInput, with one more optional argument: format The format in which this field’s initial value will be displayed. If no format argument is provided, th...
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.DateTimeInput
format The format in which this field’s initial value will be displayed.
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.DateTimeInput.format
class DecimalField(**kwargs) Default widget: NumberInput when Field.localize is False, else TextInput. Empty value: None Normalizes to: A Python decimal. Validates that the given value is a decimal. Uses MaxValueValidator and MinValueValidator if max_value and min_value are provided. Leading and trailing whitespace...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DecimalField
decimal_places The maximum number of decimal places permitted.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DecimalField.decimal_places
max_digits The maximum number of digits (those before the decimal point plus those after the decimal point, with leading zeros stripped) permitted in the value.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DecimalField.max_digits
max_value
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DecimalField.max_value
min_value These control the range of values permitted in the field, and should be given as decimal.Decimal values.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DecimalField.min_value
class DurationField(**kwargs) Default widget: TextInput Empty value: None Normalizes to: A Python timedelta. Validates that the given value is a string which can be converted into a timedelta. The value must be between datetime.timedelta.min and datetime.timedelta.max. Error message keys: required, invalid, overfl...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.DurationField
class EmailField(**kwargs) Default widget: EmailInput Empty value: Whatever you’ve given as empty_value. Normalizes to: A string. Uses EmailValidator to validate that the given value is a valid email address, using a moderately complex regular expression. Error message keys: required, invalid Has three optional a...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.EmailField
class EmailInput input_type: 'email' template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/email.html' Renders as: <input type="email" ...>
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.EmailInput
class ErrorList(initlist=None, error_class=None, renderer=None) By default, forms use django.forms.utils.ErrorList to format validation errors. ErrorList is a list like object where initlist is the list of errors. In addition this class has the following attributes and methods. error_class The CSS classes to be u...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList
as_text() Renders the error list using the template defined by template_name_text.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.as_text
as_ul() Renders the error list using the template defined by template_name_ul.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.as_ul
error_class The CSS classes to be used when rendering the error list. Any provided classes are added to the default errorlist class.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.error_class
get_context() New in Django 4.0. Return context for rendering of errors in a template. The available context is: errors : A list of the errors. error_class : A string of CSS classes.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.get_context
render(template_name=None, context=None, renderer=None) New in Django 4.0. The render method is called by __str__ as well as by the as_ul() method. All arguments are optional and will default to: template_name: Value returned by template_name context: Value returned by get_context() renderer: Value returned b...
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.render
renderer New in Django 4.0. Specifies the renderer to use for ErrorList. Defaults to None which means to use the default renderer specified by the FORM_RENDERER setting.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.renderer
template_name New in Django 4.0. The name of the template used when calling __str__ or render(). By default this is 'django/forms/errors/list/default.html' which is a proxy for the 'ul.html' template.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.template_name
template_name_text New in Django 4.0. The name of the template used when calling as_text(). By default this is 'django/forms/errors/list/text.html'. This template renders the errors as a list of bullet points.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.template_name_text
template_name_ul New in Django 4.0. The name of the template used when calling as_ul(). By default this is 'django/forms/errors/list/ul.html'. This template renders the errors in <li> tags with a wrapping <ul> with the CSS classes as defined by error_class.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.ErrorList.template_name_ul
class Field(**kwargs)
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field
Field.clean(value)
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.clean
Field.disabled
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.disabled
Field.error_messages
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.error_messages
Field.get_bound_field(form, field_name) Takes an instance of Form and the name of the field. The return value will be used when accessing the field in a template. Most likely it will be an instance of a subclass of BoundField.
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Field.get_bound_field
Field.has_changed()
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.has_changed
Field.help_text
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.help_text
Field.initial
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.initial
Field.label
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.label
Field.label_suffix
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.label_suffix
Field.localize
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.localize
Field.required
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.required
Field.validators
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.validators
Field.widget
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.Field.widget
class FileField(**kwargs) Default widget: ClearableFileInput Empty value: None Normalizes to: An UploadedFile object that wraps the file content and file name into a single object. Can validate that non-empty file data has been bound to the form. Error message keys: required, invalid, missing, empty, max_length ...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FileField
class FileInput template_name: 'django/forms/widgets/file.html' Renders as: <input type="file" ...>
django.ref.forms.widgets#django.forms.FileInput
class FilePathField(**kwargs) Default widget: Select Empty value: '' (an empty string) Normalizes to: A string. Validates that the selected choice exists in the list of choices. Error message keys: required, invalid_choice The field allows choosing from files inside a certain directory. It takes five extra argume...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FilePathField
allow_files Optional. Either True or False. Default is True. Specifies whether files in the specified location should be included. Either this or allow_folders must be True.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FilePathField.allow_files
allow_folders Optional. Either True or False. Default is False. Specifies whether folders in the specified location should be included. Either this or allow_files must be True.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FilePathField.allow_folders
match A regular expression pattern; only files with names matching this expression will be allowed as choices.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FilePathField.match
path The absolute path to the directory whose contents you want listed. This directory must exist.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FilePathField.path
recursive If False (the default) only the direct contents of path will be offered as choices. If True, the directory will be descended into recursively and all descendants will be listed as choices.
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FilePathField.recursive
class FloatField(**kwargs) Default widget: NumberInput when Field.localize is False, else TextInput. Empty value: None Normalizes to: A Python float. Validates that the given value is a float. Uses MaxValueValidator and MinValueValidator if max_value and min_value are provided. Leading and trailing whitespace is al...
django.ref.forms.fields#django.forms.FloatField
class Form
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form
Form.add_error(field, error)
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form.add_error
Form.as_p()
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form.as_p
Form.as_table()
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form.as_table
Form.as_ul()
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form.as_ul
Form.auto_id
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form.auto_id
Form.changed_data
django.ref.forms.api#django.forms.Form.changed_data