Re: Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode

[python]

In researching a solution, I believe locale.getpreferredencoding() might
be a better choice (than locale.getdefaultlocale()[ 1 ]) for determining
a system's default encoding?

In other words change:

 codePage = locale.getdefaultlocale()[ 1 ]

To this:

 codePage = locale.getpreferredencoding() 

... in my original post's code (original post follows my signature).

Malcolm

- Original message -
From: pyt...@bdurham.com
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:54:27 -0400
Subject: Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode

I would like to convert datetime.ctime() values to Unicode.

Using Python 2.6.4 running under Windows I can set my locale to
Spanish like below:

 import locale
 locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'esp' )

Then I can pass %a, %A, %b, and %B to ctime() to get day and
month names and abbreviations.

 import datetime
 dateValue = datetime.date( 2010, 5, 15 )
 dayName = dateValue.strftime( '%A' )
 dayName
's\xe1bado'

How do I convert the 's\xe1bado' value to Unicode? Specifically what
encoding do I use?

I'm thinking I might do something like the following, but I'm not sure
this is the right approach.

 codePage = locale.getdefaultlocale()[ 1 ]
 dayNameUnicode = unicode( dayName, codePage )
 dayNameUnicode
u's\xe1bado'

Feedback appreciated.

Regards,
Malcolm

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Re: Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode

[Jerry Hill]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM,  pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
 In researching a solution, I believe locale.getpreferredencoding() might
 be a better choice (than locale.getdefaultlocale()[ 1 ]) for determining
 a system's default encoding?

I haven't used the locale module a lot, but it seems to me that if
you're setting the locale with locale.setlocale(), you should get the
encoding from locale.getlocale()[1].

You're not really interested in the system's default encoding at this
point, you're interested in the encoding of the locale you've
explicitly set.

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