I was a little surprised to recently discover that datetime has no method to input a string value. PEP 321 appears does not convey much information, but a timbot post from a couple years ago clarifies things:
http://tinyurl.com/epjqc > You can stop looking: datetime doesn't > support any kind of conversion from string. > The number of bottomless pits in any datetime > module is unbounded, and Guido declared this > particular pit out-of-bounds at the start so > that there was a fighting chance to get > *anything* done for 2.3. I can understand why datetime can't handle arbitrary string inputs, but why not just simple iso8601 format -- i.e. the default output format for datetime? Given a datetime-generated string: >>> now = str(datetime.datetime.now()) >>> print now '2006-02-23 11:03:36.762172' Why can't we have a function to accept it as string input and return a datetime object? datetime.parse_iso8601(now) Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
