On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Greg Krohn <inva...@example.invalid> wrote:
<snip> > ActivePython 2.6.1.1 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 5 2008, 13:58:38) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] > on > win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import time >>>> fmt = "%m/%d/%y %I:%M %p" >>>> print time.strptime(fmt, time.strftime(fmt)) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "C:\Python26\lib\_strptime.py", line 454, in _strptime_time > return _strptime(data_string, format)[0] > File "C:\Python26\lib\_strptime.py", line 325, in _strptime > (data_string, format)) > ValueError: time data '%m/%d/%y %I:%M %p' does not match format '02/16/09 > 04:52 > PM' > > So, yeah, that seems weird to me. Does anyone get similar results, know why > this is happening, and/or how to fix it? It's actually pretty trivial to fix, which you would have also known if you had read the message of the exception more carefully. :P You passed the arguments for strptime() the wrong way around. Just pass them in reverse and your problem will be fixed. -- Denis Kasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list