Times and dates

[Carsten Gaebler]

YorizZ wrote:

> I know that i can create a string from a date with strtime(date), but not
> the other way around..

strptime() may be your friend if your platform supports it:


Python 2.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 15:29:57)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-109)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import time
 >>> time.strptime("2002-11-07", "%Y-%m-%d")
(2002, 11, 7, 0, 0, 0, 3, 311, 0)
 >>> time.asctime(time.strptime("2002-11-07", "%Y-%m-%d"))
'Thu Nov  7 00:00:00 2002'
 >>>


cg.