On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:35:29 AM UTC-5, Greg Donald wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:31PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > 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. > > > > from dateutil.parser import parse > > dt = parse( whatever ) > > > > I've throw all kind of date and timestamps at it.. have yet to see anything > it won't parse. > > > > > > -- > > Greg Donald
Thanks - I tried this (dateutil.parser import parsed...), and it works. I'm skeptical of it working for any crazy date string thrown at it, but for my purposes it should suffice -- and my purposes for now was purely just curiousity on how to handle if it became necessary. I tried figuring out Steve D'Aprano's solution above on my system (windows 7, python 2.7) - no luck. Sorry, I am a newbie, so I'm a bit lost on this --- my locale module doesnt offer a nl_langinfo function -- why would this be? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
