On Feb 3, 12:13 pm, "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hell...@dcuktec.org> wrote: > On 02/03/11 10:59, AlienBaby wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 3, 10:22 am, AlienBaby<matt.j.war...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> I'm attempting to convert some date-time strings from a text file > >> under windows into a datetime object as returned by strptime() > > >> However, the strings can represent dates in various formats based on > >> the country of origin, for example shortened month names etc.. are > >> different between countries. > > >> I am trying to set the correct locale for strptime to work, but I'm > >> having a lot of trouble doing this under windows. > > >> IE, wher the date is in the Danish Language, > > >> import locale > >> locale.setlocale('LC_ALL',locale.normalize('da_DK')) > > >> gives > > >> locale.Error: unsupported locale string. > > >> I have tried various ways but always hit the same error. > > >> I understand setting LC_ALL may not be what I require, I was first > >> looking to simply get the locale setting correctly before I started > >> changing only the date-time specific elements. > > >> Any help or pointers much appreciated. Current searching around is > >> revealing a fair amount of confusion..! > > >> Thanks, > > >> Matt. > > > As often happens, writing that out and the working through a bit more, > > I resolved my own question. > > > It ended up being a simple matter of translating from posix codes to > > windows codes, so 'fr_FR' becomes 'French_France'... > > > thanks, > > > MAtt. > > You might also want to have a look at the contents of: > locale.locale_alias > > -- > mph- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
I did for a bit.. I tried, for example with French from locale.locale_alias, you can find 'fr_FR' aliases to 'fr_FR.ISO8859-1' but trying, locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'fr_FR.ISO8859-1') gives locale.Error: unsupported locale setting I'm now just using a handbuilt dict that holds translations like 'fr_FR' : 'French_France' 'da_DK' : 'Danish_Denmark' etc.. Thanks, MAtt. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list