time, calendar, datetime, etc

Ben S bens at replytothegroupplease.com
Wed Jul 30 22:39:50 EDT 2003


Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     kylotan> PS. I use 'time.strptime(myTime, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S
>     %Y')' as a kylotan> reverse-asctime(), and was surprised that I
>     couldn't find this kylotan> wrapped in a function in any of the
>     modules. Maybe such a kylotan> function would be considered for
> future addition?
>
> Seems simple enough to not be needed.  What makes asctime() all that
> special?

Sorry...I just rechecked the docs and it would appear that this is the
default behaviour of strptime if you omit the format string. Therefore a
new function isn't needed.

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