On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM, frenc1z 1z <fren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to compare some dates (date+time really). The dates all have
> the following RFC2822 format:
>
> Eg. is d1 < d2?
> d1 = "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:27:29 -0800"
> d2 = "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:40:00 -0600"
>
> Been trying to parse these dates as follows: print datetime.strptime("Tue,
> 13 Jan 2009 02:40:00 -0800", "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z").
>
> I get the following error on the conversion "ValueError: 'z' is a bad
> directive in format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'".
The correct format code is %Z (upper case). However that still doesn't
work, I don't have a complete solution for you.
In [8]: datetime.strptime("Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:40:00 EST", "%a, %d %b
%Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\Project\Play\<ipython console> in <module>()
C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py in strptime(data_string, format)
328 if not found:
329 raise ValueError("time data did not match format:
data=%s fmt=%s" %
--> 330 (data_string, format))
331 if len(data_string) != found.end():
332 raise ValueError("unconverted data remains: %s" %
ValueError: time data did not match format: data=Tue, 13 Jan 2009
02:40:00 EST fmt=%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z
Kent
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