There's more than one way, but this one will work for dates prior to 2000. import time datestring='8-15-05' d=time.strptime(datestring,'%m-%d-%y') number=10000*d[0]+100*d[1]+d[2] print number
-Larry Bates Bell, Kevin wrote: > Anyone aware of existing code to turn a date string "8-15-05" into the > number 20050815? > > The dateutil module has a parse method that looks perfect, I downloaded > and unzipped it, but could figure out how to install it. I using > windows XP and py2.4. > > Any ideas? > > > Kev > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
