views.generic.dates.MonthMixin

class MonthMixin [source]

A mixin that can be used to retrieve and provide parsing information for a month component of a date.

Methods and Attributes

month_format

The strftime() format to use when parsing the month. By default, this is '%b'.

month

Optional The value for the month, as a string. By default, set to None, which means the month will be determined using other means.

get_month_format() [source]

Returns the strftime() format to use when parsing the month. Returns month_format by default.

get_month() [source]

Returns the month for which this view will display data, as a string. Tries the following sources, in order:

• The value of the MonthMixin.month attribute.
• The value of the month argument captured in the URL pattern.
• The value of the month GET query argument.

Raises a 404 if no valid month specification can be found.

get_next_month(date) [source]

Returns a date object containing the first day of the month after the date provided. This function can also return None or raise an Http404 exception, depending on the values of allow_empty and allow_future.

get_previous_month(date) [source]

Returns a date object containing the first day of the month before the date provided. This function can also return None or raise an Http404 exception, depending on the values of allow_empty and allow_future.