converting string to a date format

[tekion]

On Dec 21, 3:05 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> tekionwrote:
> > 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.

Thanks.  This is what I have:

time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.strptime("24/Nov/
2009:12:00:00", "%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S")

and it seems to work.