strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

[noydb]

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:35:29 AM UTC-5, Greg Donald wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:31PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
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> > I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil.  It has a nice submodule
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> > called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with good
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> > accuracy.  Not sure how it works, but it handles all the common American
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> > date formats I've thrown at it.
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> from dateutil.parser import parse
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> dt = parse( whatever )
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> I've throw all kind of date and timestamps at it.. have yet to see anything it won't parse.
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> Greg Donald


Thanks - I tried this (dateutil.parser import parsed...), and it works.  I'm skeptical of it working for any crazy date string thrown at it, but for my purposes it should suffice -- and my purposes for now was purely just curiousity on how to handle if it became necessary.

I tried figuring out Steve D'Aprano's solution above on my system (windows 7, python 2.7) - no luck.  Sorry, I am a newbie, so I'm a bit lost on this --- my locale module doesnt offer a nl_langinfo function -- why would this be?