On May 29, 11:09 pm, TYR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm doing some data normalisation, which involves data from a Web site > being extracted with BeautifulSoup, cleaned up with a regex, then > having the current year as returned by time()'s tm_year attribute > inserted, before the data is concatenated with string.join() and fed > to time.strptime(). > > Here's some code: > timeinput = re.split('[\s:-]', rawtime) > print timeinput #trace statement > print year #trace statement > t = timeinput.insert(2, year) > print t #trace statement > t1 = string.join(t, '') > timeobject = time.strptime(t1, "%d %b %Y %H %M") > > year is a Unicode string; so is the data in rawtime (BeautifulSoup > gives you Unicode, dammit). And here's the output: > > [u'29', u'May', u'01', u'00'] (OK, so the regex is working) > 2008 (OK, so the year is a year) > None (...but what's this?) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "bothv2.py", line 71, in <module> > t1 = string.join(t, '') > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/string.py", line 316, in join > return sep.join(words) > TypeError
list.insert modifies the list in-place: >>> l = [1,2,3] >>> l.insert(2,4) >>> l [1, 2, 4, 3] It also returns None, which is what you're assigning to 't' and then trying to join. Replace your usage of 't' with 'timeinput' and it should work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list