Hi, I am using time.strptime method as follows:
I receive an input string, representing some date in the following format: %d%m%Y However, the day part may be a single digit or two, depending on magnitude. For example: '10052012' will be parsed as day 10, month 5, year 2012 Again: '8052012' will be parsed as day 8, month 5, year 2012 What happens when day is 1 or 2? '1052012' will be parsed as day 10, month 5, year 2012 !!!! That's not the expected behaviour! Not for me at least. I mean, in my case, month will always be a 2 digit string, so there's no ambiguity problem by pretending that... say '1052012' is correctly parsed. Is there a way out of here? I know I can pre-parse the string and append a '0' to it when lenght == 7, but I think that a better way would be if strptime allowed me to define my format in a better way... To say that the month is the optional one-two digit part is just a default, isn't it? Why can't I specify that the day part is the one with one-or-two digits on the input string...? Or is there a way out that I don't know yet? -- Javier Novoa C. --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to n...@netfront.net --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list