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[Gerrit Holl]

Leeds, Mark schreef op donderdag  5 juni om 20:56:34 +0000:
> i'm a python beginner but I have three books and i couldn't find an
> answer to the following question.
>  
> i have a date, say as a string 26Nov2002 and i want to convert it to a
> string 20021126.
>  
> it's probably possible to write a function to do this by creating
> a table of months to numbers but I was hoping that
> there was some kind of python function i could use instead ?

time.strptime does what you want.

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-time.html#l2h-1676

yours,
Gerrit.

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