Django SelectDateWidget to show month and year only

There's a snippet here, which sets the day to 1 (presuming you've got a DateField that this value will end up in, you'll need to get some kind of day).

The code is like this (just in case Django snippets disappears):

import datetimeimport refrom django.forms.widgets import Widget, Selectfrom django.utils.dates import MONTHSfrom django.utils.safestring import mark_safe__all__ = ('MonthYearWidget',)RE_DATE = re.compile(r'(\d{4})-(\d\d?)-(\d\d?)$')class MonthYearWidget(Widget):    """    A Widget that splits date input into two <select> boxes for month and year,    with 'day' defaulting to the first of the month.    Based on SelectDateWidget, in     django/trunk/django/forms/extras/widgets.py    """    none_value = (0, '---')    month_field = '%s_month'    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 = value.year, value.month        except AttributeError:            year_val = month_val = None            if isinstance(value, basestring):                match = RE_DATE.match(value)                if match:                    year_val, month_val, day_val = [int(v) for v in match.groups()]        output = []        if 'id' in self.attrs:            id_ = self.attrs['id']        else:            id_ = 'id_%s' % name        month_choices = MONTHS.items()        if not (self.required and value):            month_choices.append(self.none_value)        month_choices.sort()        local_attrs = self.build_attrs(id=self.month_field % id_)        s = Select(choices=month_choices)        select_html = s.render(self.month_field % name, month_val, local_attrs)        output.append(select_html)        year_choices = [(i, i) for i in self.years]        if not (self.required and value):            year_choices.insert(0, self.none_value)        local_attrs['id'] = self.year_field % id_        s = Select(choices=year_choices)        select_html = s.render(self.year_field % name, year_val, local_attrs)        output.append(select_html)        return mark_safe(u'\n'.join(output))    def id_for_label(self, id_):        return '%s_month' % id_    id_for_label = classmethod(id_for_label)    def value_from_datadict(self, data, files, name):        y = data.get(self.year_field % name)        m = data.get(self.month_field % name)        if y == m == "0":            return None        if y and m:            return '%s-%s-%s' % (y, m, 1)        return data.get(name, None)

A Python 3 widget sample here https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/10522/.

Example usage :

class myForm(forms.Form):    # ...    date = forms.DateField(        required=False,        widget=MonthYearWidget(years=xrange(2004,2010))    )

I came across the same problem today and solved it by removing the day field via a css property and setting 1 as value for the day on clean up.

#id_my_date_field_day-button {    display: none;}

I used a ModelForm with an UpdateView and therefore had initial data in my fields which made life a bit simpler because I always had a valid value for the day of my_date_field.