Threads and time.strptime()

[John Machin]

On 3/07/2006 6:57 PM, Maximilian Michel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an interesting problem:
> I have written code, that reads a logfile and parses it for date string
> (Thu Jun 29 14:01:23 2006).
> Standalone everthing works fine, all is recognized.
> 
> But if I let the same code run in a thread, with the same file as input
> I get the following error:
> ...
>   File "sensor.py", line 158, in gotData
>     t = time.strptime(s)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/_strptime.py", line 293, in strptime
>     raise ValueError("time data did not match format:  data=%s  fmt=%s"
> %
> ValueError: time data did not match format:  data=Thu Jun 29 14:01:23
> 2006  fmt=%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y

Possibilities:

(1) The thread implementation has acquired extra characters (whitespace 
or \x00).

(2) The thread implementation has changed to a locale that doesn't have 
"Thu" & "Jun" as day/month name abbreviations.

Try inserting
print "strptime(%r); locale: %r" % (s, locale.getlocale())
before your call to strptime()

HTH,
John