strftime() argument 1 must be str, not unicode

[Alexandr N Zamaraev]

Tim Roberts wrote:
 > I think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to expect.  At the risk of
 > over-generalization, there is no good reason why, by this point in time,
 > all of the standard library routines that accept strings shouldn't also
 > accept Unicode strings.
However, file(fname), open(fname), os .*, os.path .*, 
time.strftime(format) take unicode parameters.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue2782