parsing a date

[Larry Bates]

Better than a single line of code?  What is it that
you are looking for?

If you dates are consistent you can do:

year, month, day=map(int, d.split('-'))

but I'm not sure it is "better".  I guess it depends
on what you want to do with them after parsing.

-Larry Bates

Kalle Anke wrote:
> I want to parse a date string, for example '2005-09-23', and since I haven't 
> done this before I would like to ask what is the best way to do it.
> 
> I've looked around and the dateutil seems to be what most people use, but 
> unfortunately I only get an empty file when I try to download it. I also 
> tried the standard modules and ended up with this
> 
> import datetime
> from time import strptime
> 
> d = '2005-09-23'
> w = strptime(d,'%Y-%m-%d')
> print datetime.date( w[0], w[1], w[2] )
> 
> But I suspect there is a better way to do it??
>