On 2012-05-09, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > > You'd have to read the strptime(3) manual page (it's a Unix function, > imported straight into Python, I'm sure). Judging from a quick read > it's not intended to support things like these. I'm surprised it > doesn't parse your last example to (10, 52, 12) and then fail it due > to month>12.
Well, it doesn't, at least on my Python. I'm using 2.7.3 version > > Can't you use a standard date format, like ISO? Apart from not being > possible to parse with standard functions, this one looks quite odd > and isn't very human-readable. No, sadly the input doesn't depends on me :-( > > If you have to use this format, I strongly recommend parsing it > "manually" as text first. Then you can create an ISO date and feed > that to strptime, or perhaps use your parsed (day, month, year) tuple > directly. Ok, I'll do that. > > /Jorgen > Thanks! -- Javier Novoa C. --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to n...@netfront.net --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list