Fixed #9336. Changed CheckboxInput to render 'True' and 'False' input strings as checked or not instead of as a value attribute. Thanks, bthomas.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12556 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/forms/widgets.py b/django/forms/widgets.py
index 57bdea17f4..ee1966b76f 100644
--- a/django/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/django/forms/widgets.py
@@ -382,7 +382,12 @@ 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