Parsing Microseconds in a Django Form

There's currently no way to accept microsecond-precision input through a Django form's DateTimeField. This is an acknowledged bug, but the official solution might not come very soon, because the real fix is non-trivial.

In the meantime, here's one approach that will work in most cases:

class DateTimeWithUsecsField(forms.DateTimeField):
    def clean(self, value):
        if value and '.' in value: 
            value, usecs = value.rsplit('.', 1) # rsplit in case '.' is used elsewhere
            usecs += '0'*(6-len(usecs)) # right pad with zeros if necessary
            try:
                usecs = int(usecs) 
            except ValueError: 
                raise ValidationError('Microseconds must be an integer') 
        else: 
            usecs = 0 
        cleaned_value = super(DateTimeWithUsecsField, self).clean(value)
        if cleaned_value:
            cleaned_value = cleaned_value.replace(microsecond=usecs)
        return cleaned_value

To use this in a model form, you can override the field like so:

class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *arg, **kwargs):
        super(MyForm, self).__init__(*arg, **kwargs)
        self.fields['date'] = DateTimeWithUsecsField()
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