On Wed Mar 26 15:13:09 CET 2008, wrightee wrote: > My server gives me a string y[0]: "20080327", which I convert to a > QDateTime object using: > > x=QDateTime.fromString(y[0],"yyyymmdd") > > Printing x.toString("dd-mm-yyyy") gives me what I would expect - > 27-03-2008
Strange. You should really be using "dd-MM-yyyy". Maybe this is why QDate isn't behaving as you would expect - see below. > What I'm trying to do though is add this to a QTableWidget item to > create a date sortable column; I'm using this: > > if type(y)==QDateTime: > item=QTableWidgetItem() > item.setData(Qt.DisplayRole,QVariant(y)) This should work fine. > BUT.. I'm adding 90 dates going back from today and getting values > that look like this: > > 27/01/2007 00:12 > 28/01/2007 00:12 > 29/01/2007 00:12 > 30/01/2007 00:12 > 31/01/2007 00:12 > 01/01/2008 00:01 > 01/01/2008 00:02 > 01/01/2008 00:03 > > etc Right. You can see the date and time because you're using a QDateTime object. > I tried using QDate but couldn't seem to be able to get > QDate.fromString to create an object at all. This may have something to do with the format string you tried. > Could someone please advise where I'm going wrong, the end result > should be a column in my QTableWidget formatted dd/mm/yyyy that can be > sorted as dates, not strings, and originate from data formatted > "YYYYMMDD" Just use QDate objects instead of QDateTime objects and it should all just work. Good luck! David -- David Boddie Lead Technical Writer, Trolltech ASA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list