def test_dateField(self):
        f = forms.DateField()
        # Parse a date in an unaccepted format; get an error
        self.assertRaises(forms.ValidationError, f.clean, '2010-12-21')

        # Parse a date in a valid format, get a parsed result
        result = f.clean('21.12.2010')
        self.assertEqual(result, date(2010,12,21))

        # Check that the parsed result does a round trip
        text = f.widget._format_value(result)
        self.assertEqual(text, '21.12.2010')

        # Parse a date in a valid, but non-default format, get a parsed result
        result = f.clean('21-12-2010')
        self.assertEqual(result, date(2010,12,21))

        # Check that the parsed result does a round trip to default format
        text = f.widget._format_value(result)
        self.assertEqual(text, "21.12.2010")
DateFields can parse dates in the default format
dataset/ETHPy150Open AppScale/appscale/AppServer/lib/django-1.2/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/input_formats.py/CustomDateInputFormatsTests.test_dateField