Kalle Anke wrote:
>I want to parse a date string, for example '2005-09-23', and since I haven't
>done this before I would like to ask what is the best way to do it.
>
>I've looked around and the dateutil seems to be what most people use, but
>unfortunately I only get an empty file when I try to download it. I also
>tried the standard modules and ended up with this
>
>import datetime
>from time import strptime
>
>d = '2005-09-23'
>w = strptime(d,'%Y-%m-%d')
>print datetime.date( w[0], w[1], w[2] )
>
Well, thats not _to_ bad.
>But I suspect there is a better way to do it??
>
>
>
There is...
I would check out "strftime"
With strftime you could do something like this...
# ------
print strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
# -----
or if you wanted to get the time in the past or future you could do
something like
# ------
tm = time.localtime(time.time() + ((60 * 60) * 24))
print strftime("%Y-%m-%d", tm)
# -----
Which gets the date of tommarow.
HTH,
Peter
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