converting string to a date format

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tekion wrote:
> Ben,
> I do not have python 2.6 install, my version of Python is 2.4.
> Because of my version of Python I believe I have to perform what you
> have suggested:
> 
> This should, ideally, consist of two separate operations:
> 
>   * parse the string, using a specific format, to create a ‘datetime’
>     object
> 
>   * create a string representation of the datetime using your
> preferred
>     string format
> 
> So I guess I am stuck on parsing the string "24/Nov/2009:12:00:00
> -0500" using regex and or string function to get the output to
> "2009-11-24 12:00:00".  It looks like I may have to use regex to
> accomplish this and also re-map Nov to "11".  Does any one have any
> idea that would take "24/Nov/2009:HH:MM:SS" and format it to
> "2009-11-24 HH:MM:SS"? Thanks

If you don't have the 'datetime' module then you can use the 'time'
instead. Use time.strptime() to parse the string and time.strftime() to
create the new string.