Uhm, ok, it WAS a dumb question,
the problem is the format of datetime in whois database,
bpython has nothing to do with that.
Il giorno mercoledì 29 maggio 2013 13:43:05 UTC+2, Antonio Mignolli ha
scritto:
>
> Yes! You got it.
>
> From a linux command line, I set locale to default:
> # export LC_ALL=C (can I do this directly in bpython?)
>
> And now magically from bpython:
>
> >>> import whois
> >>> w=whois.whois('google.com')
> >>> w.expiration_date
> datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 14, 0, 0)
>
> Thanks!
>
> A further question (forgive me if sounds dumb, I'm not a guru in Python
> objects):
> Is there a way to know what locale setting is a datetime object using?
> Cannot bpython "read" the locale and correctly interpret the real date
> from a datetime?
>
> Il giorno mercoledì 29 maggio 2013 13:17:22 UTC+2, marienz ha scritto:
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Antonio Mignolli
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Could be a python-whois issue?
>> > Looks very strange to me.
>>
>> I bet it's the localization setup again. This has bit bpython in the
>> past.
>>
>> Looking at the whois data for google.com using the commandline "whois"
>> tool, I see an expiration date of "14-sep-2020". The "whois" package
>> tries to "cast" strings to dates by applying datetime.strptime and a
>> bunch of known formats, and just gives you a string if all formats
>> fail. The format that should match here is '%d-%b-%Y', and %b is
>> locale-sensitive (just checked the docs).
>>
>> This code in whois is a little dodgy, it needs to find a
>> locale-insensitive way of parsing this date. It would be good if
>> bpython would not be different from regular python here, but if I
>> recall correctly that's hard: there was a reason we set up
>> localization, and evaluating your code in a separate interpreter is
>> not an easy feature to add to bpython.
>>
>> Sorry :(
>>
>> --
>> Marien.
>>
>
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