[решено] см. ниже для применения принятого ответа и исходного кода для функционирования виджета Kivy DatePicker.

Я изучал киви и решил сделать виджеты выбора даты в качестве учебного упражнения.

import kivy
kivy.require('1.4.0')    
from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.app import App

from datetime import date, timedelta

class DatePicker(BoxLayout):

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(DatePicker, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self.date = date.today()
        self.orientation = "vertical"

        self.header = BoxLayout(orientation = 'horizontal', 
                                size_hint = (1, 0.2))
        self.body = GridLayout(cols = 7)
        self.add_widget(self.header)
        self.add_widget(self.body)

        self.populate_body()
        self.populate_header()

    def populate_header(self):
        self.header.clear_widgets()
        self.previous_month = Button(text = "<")
        self.next_month = Button(text = ">")
        self.current_month = Label(text = repr(self.date), 
                                   size_hint = (2, 1))

        self.header.add_widget(self.previous_month)
        self.header.add_widget(self.current_month)
        self.header.add_widget(self.next_month)

    def populate_body(self):
        self.body.clear_widgets()
        date_cursor = date(self.date.year, self.date.month, 1)
        while date_cursor.month == self.date.month:
            self.date_label = Label(text = str(date_cursor.day))
            self.body.add_widget(self.date_label)
            date_cursor += timedelta(days = 1)

# Not yet implimented ###
#    def set_date(self, day):
#        self.date = date(self.date.year, self.date.month, day)
#        self.populate_body()
#        self.populate_header()
#
#    def move_next_month(self):
#        if self.date.month == 12:
#            self.date = date(self.date.year + 1, 1, self.date.day)
#        else:
#            self.date = date(self.date.year, self.date.month + 1, self.date.day)
#    def move_previous_month(self):
#        if self.date.month == 1:
#            self.date = date(self.date.year - 1, 12, self.date.day)
#        else:
#            self.date = date(self.date.year, self.date.month -1, self.date.day)
#        self.populate_header()
#        self.populate_body()



class MyApp(App):

    def build(self):
        return DatePicker()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyApp().run()

Я врезался в дорожный блок и не могу понять, как продолжить. Я хочу добавить метод, чтобы при нажатии на date_labels они устанавливали self.дата для объекта даты с этой частью дня.

Я попытался добавить

self.date_label.bind(on_touch_down = self.set_date(date_cursor.day)) 

но получил только максимальные ошибки рекурсии.

устранение:

import kivy

kivy.require('1.4.0')

from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.button import Button

from kivy.app import App

from datetime import date, timedelta

from functools import partial

class DatePicker(BoxLayout):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(DatePicker, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self.date = date.today()
        self.orientation = "vertical"
        self.month_names = ('January',
                            'February', 
                            'March', 
                            'April', 
                            'May', 
                            'June', 
                            'July', 
                            'August', 
                            'September', 
                            'October',
                            'November',
                            'December')
        if kwargs.has_key("month_names"):
            self.month_names = kwargs['month_names']
        self.header = BoxLayout(orientation = 'horizontal', 
                                size_hint = (1, 0.2))
        self.body = GridLayout(cols = 7)
        self.add_widget(self.header)
        self.add_widget(self.body)

        self.populate_body()
        self.populate_header()

    def populate_header(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.header.clear_widgets()
        previous_month = Button(text = "<")
        previous_month.bind(on_press=partial(self.move_previous_month))
        next_month = Button(text = ">", on_press = self.move_next_month)
        next_month.bind(on_press=partial(self.move_next_month))
        month_year_text = self.month_names[self.date.month -1] + ' ' + str(self.date.year)
        current_month = Label(text=month_year_text, size_hint = (2, 1))

        self.header.add_widget(previous_month)
        self.header.add_widget(current_month)
        self.header.add_widget(next_month)

    def populate_body(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.body.clear_widgets()
        date_cursor = date(self.date.year, self.date.month, 1)
        for filler in range(date_cursor.isoweekday()-1):
            self.body.add_widget(Label(text=""))
        while date_cursor.month == self.date.month:
            date_label = Button(text = str(date_cursor.day))
            date_label.bind(on_press=partial(self.set_date, 
                                                  day=date_cursor.day))
            if self.date.day == date_cursor.day:
                date_label.background_normal, date_label.background_down = date_label.background_down, date_label.background_normal
            self.body.add_widget(date_label)
            date_cursor += timedelta(days = 1)

    def set_date(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.date = date(self.date.year, self.date.month, kwargs['day'])
        self.populate_body()
        self.populate_header()

    def move_next_month(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.date.month == 12:
            self.date = date(self.date.year + 1, 1, self.date.day)
        else:
            self.date = date(self.date.year, self.date.month + 1, self.date.day)
        self.populate_header()
        self.populate_body()

    def move_previous_month(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.date.month == 1:
            self.date = date(self.date.year - 1, 12, self.date.day)
        else:
            self.date = date(self.date.year, self.date.month -1, self.date.day)
        self.populate_header()
        self.populate_body()



class MyApp(App):

    def build(self):
        return DatePicker()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyApp().run()