I get an error when setting a Django date field

Question

I'm trying to set a date field to a constant date. My "models.py" with the date field:

class Foo(models.Model):
    bar = models.DateField()

In my view:

import datetime
from app.models import Foo

foo = Foo(bar=datetime.date('1/1/2021'))

The error:

Exception Type: TypeError
Exception Value: an integer is required (got type str)

user_5293637 · Answer

you are passing a string to date() method. You should pass integer inside like this:

foo = Foo(bar=datetime.date(2020, 1, 1))

user_12744275 · Answer

You can try with strptime function of datetime:

import datetime
from app.models import Foo

foo = Foo(bar=datetime.datetime.strptime('1/1/2021',"%d/%m/%Y").date())

user_3723707 · Answer

Try code below:

import datetime

date_object = datetime.date.fromisoformat('2021-01-01')

foo = Foo(bar=date_object)