strftime() argument 1 must be str, not unicode

[Andrii V. Mishkovskyi]

2008/5/7 Alexandr N Zamaraev <tonal at promsoft.ru>:
> Subj is bag?
>
>  Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
>  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> from datetime import datetime
>  >>> datetime.today().strftime('%Y_%m_%d %H_%M_%S.csv')
>  '2008_05_07 12_30_22.csv'
>  >>> datetime.today().strftime(u'%Y_%m_%d %H_%M_%S.csv')
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  TypeError: strftime() argument 1 must be str, not unicode

Unicode and str objects are not the same. Why do you think that this
is a bug? Anyway, you can always use 'encode' method of unicode
objects:

In [2]: datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.csv')
Out[2]: '2008-05-07 10-49-24.csv'

In [3]: datetime.today().strftime(u'%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.csv')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/mishok/doc/python/<ipython console> in <module>()

TypeError: strftime() argument 1 must be str, not unicode

In [4]: datetime.today().strftime(u'%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.csv'.encode('utf-8'))
Out[4]: '2008-05-07 10-51-19.csv'

No offence, but have you read the tutorial?

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