%Z stands for time zone name in letters Eg. IST or EDT or GMT, so it would fail to parse +05:30
However I do not have a solution to your problem but a footnote as hint - http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#id1 -- Abhishek On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, vishwajeet singh <dextrou...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to convert date string to datetime using datetime.strptime and > when there is timezone part in string conversion is throwing errors. > > Here is what I am doing > string_date = somedate.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") > > and than later in some other part of code > actual_date = datetime.strptime(string_date,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") > > I am getting following error for this conversion "*time data 'Tue, 04 May > 2010 14:59:45 +05:30' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z'*" > > All formats without timezone works perfectly fine. > > -- > Vishwajeet Singh > +91-9657702154 | dextrou...@gmail.com | http://bootstraptoday.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/vishwajeets | LinkedIn: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/singhvishwajeet > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > >
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