On 12/10/2012 02:18 PM, noydb wrote: > Follow-on question to this earlier topic - > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.python/wnUlPBBNah8/discussion > > Was curious to know if there was a way to handle different user computers > with different operating system set date formats. 2/10/2006 vs 2-10-2006, > for example. Not an issue for my current task, but was just curious how this > could be handled? > > If in my code I am declaring the user entered date foramtted as > x = datetime.datetime.strptime(user_entered_time , "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p") # > format for my computer > > but on another person's computer, their's is set as 2-10-2006 14:26:06, the > code fails. Can this be accounted for?
I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil. It has a nice submodule called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with good accuracy. Not sure how it works, but it handles all the common American date formats I've thrown at it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
