A certain DAV server reports a time stamp as "Tues, 30 Aug 2005 20:48:31" ( but not "Tue, ..." as usual)
This produces the error below. >>> time.strptime("Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:48:31","%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S") (2005, 8, 30, 20, 48, 31, 1, 242, -1) >>> time.strptime("Tues, 30 Aug 2005 20:48:31","%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python23\lib\_strptime.py", line 425, in strptime raise ValueError("time data did not match format: data=%s fmt=%s" % ValueError: time data did not match format: data=Tues, 30 Aug 2005 20:48:31 fmt=%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S >>> I also don't see how to alter the pattern for strptime to be tolerante for more long weekday strings? Any ideas? Shouldn't it be possible to insert real regexp-like stuff in the pattern? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list