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-rw-r--r--django/forms/widgets.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/django/forms/widgets.py b/django/forms/widgets.py
index a759581205..a39c19872e 100644
--- a/django/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/django/forms/widgets.py
@@ -384,7 +384,12 @@ class CheckboxInput(Widget):
# A missing value means False because HTML form submission does not
# send results for unselected checkboxes.
return False
- return super(CheckboxInput, self).value_from_datadict(data, files, name)
+ value = data.get(name)
+ # Translate true and false strings to boolean values.
+ values = {'true': True, 'false': False}
+ if isinstance(value, basestring):
+ value = values.get(value.lower(), value)
+ return value
def _has_changed(self, initial, data):
# Sometimes data or initial could be None or u'' which should be the