On 2005-02-14, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> Is it true that a datetime object can convert itself into a >> string, but not the other way around? IOW, there's no simple >> way to take the output from str(d) and turn it back into d? > > I assume this is true because there is not one standard format > for a date-time string.
There seems to be a de-facto standard format: that which is returned by the str(d). >> class MyDatetime(datetime.datetime): >> def __init__(self,s): [...] > datetime.datetime objects are immutable, so you need to define > __new__ instead of __init__: Thanks. I should have known that. I guess I've never subclassed an immutible type before. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! It's hard being at an ARTIST!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list