two newbie questions ... "date from string"

[Gerald Klix]

Although it seems to late for now:

Sometime ago I found a strptime implementation at ASPN 
(http://www.activestate.com/Products/ASPN_Open/).
If you need it, I will mail it to you.

HTH,
Gerald


Daan Hoogland wrote:
> Thanks again,
> 
> I wrote my own, using string.split() and string.atoi(). It's not very generic
> but it works for now.
> 
> It aroused some questions on inheritence and especially overloading. Can you
> give me any pointers to reading on such issues?
> 
> also could one say
> 
> datetime.datetime(time.strptime("2003-05-13 12:15:18:000000", "%Y-%m-%d% H:%M:%S"))
> 
> to get a datetime object?
> 
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, you wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:30:30AM +0000, Duncan Booth wrote:
>>
>>>Daan Hoogland <hoogland at astron.nl> wrote in
>>>news:mailman.1052821639.7509.python-list at python.org: 
>>>
>>>
>>>>Any idea on the datetime_from_string parsing question, anyone? Or do I
>>>>have to write one myself?
>>>>
>>>>I can't find a function to convert a date string back to a datetime
>>>>object. The date i have is returned by postgresql in the (well known)
>>>>format "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss:mmmmmm". Am i missing something in the
>>>>help? Or is there an extended Date package that does this?
>>>
>>>>>>time.strptime("2003-05-13 12:15:18:000000", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
>>>>>
>>>(2003, 5, 13, 12, 15, 18, 1, 133, -1)
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, unless you are using Python 2.3, you will find that not all 
>>>platforms include the time.strptime function (I think Unix has it, Windows 
>>>doesn't). In Python 2.3 strptime is implemented in a module _strptime.py 
>>>which should be useable on 2.2.1+ if you copy it.
>>
>>Python 2.3's _strptime module uses the new datetime module, which is a C
>>extension, so using it in 2.2 is non-trivial.
>>
>>-Andrew.
>>
>>
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