On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Not just these functions, but almost the entire time/datetime >> functions mimic their C counterparts. > > I always find datetime module very painful to deal with. > May be it is because it has borrowed too much from C instead of being > pythonic. > > Just give one example: > >>>> import datetime >>>> t = datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat() >>>> t > '2009-02-19T11:26:28.750579' > > Is there any easy way to convert this iso-formatted date string back > to datetime?
http://blog.redinnovation.com/2008/06/30/relativity-of-time-shortcomings-in-python-datetime-and-workaround/ I always felt datetime/date modules were a hack and still continue to use "time" for all my date/datetime needs :) If you want something better I suggest the egenix mxDateTime module. > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
