Strange thing with types

[TYR]

On May 29, 2:24 pm, alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 29, 11:09 pm, TYR <a.harrow... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm doing some data normalisation, which involves data from a Web site
> > being extracted with BeautifulSoup, cleaned up with a regex, then
> > having the current year as returned by time()'s tm_year attribute
> > inserted, before the data is concatenated with string.join() and fed
> > to time.strptime().
>
> > Here's some code:
> > timeinput = re.split('[\s:-]', rawtime)
> > print timeinput #trace statement
> > print year #trace statement
> > t = timeinput.insert(2, year)
> > print t #trace statement
> > t1 = string.join(t, '')
> > timeobject = time.strptime(t1, "%d %b %Y %H %M")
>
> > year is a Unicode string; so is the data in rawtime (BeautifulSoup
> > gives you Unicode, dammit). And here's the output:
>
> > [u'29', u'May', u'01', u'00'] (OK, so the regex is working)
> > 2008 (OK, so the year is a year)
> > None (...but what's this?)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "bothv2.py", line 71, in <module>
> >     t1 = string.join(t, '')
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/string.py", line 316, in join
> >     return sep.join(words)
> > TypeError
>
> list.insert modifies the list in-place:
>
> >>> l = [1,2,3]
> >>> l.insert(2,4)
> >>> l
>
> [1, 2, 4, 3]
>
> It also returns None, which is what you're assigning to 't' and then
> trying to join.
>
> Replace your usage of 't' with 'timeinput' and it should work.

Thank you.