On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know of a work around?
You could use a regular expression match to check the format. Something like import re dateRe = re.compile(r'\d\d\d\d/\d\d/\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d') if dateRe.match(d1): # handle correctly formatted date else: # handle incorrect date Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor