Quoting "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The old mx.datetime module (on which Python's datetime module is based, I > > presume) had a strptime() function which would basically do the reverse (you > > specify a format string and it would attempt to parse the date string you > > give > > it). Unfortunately, Python's datetime module doesn't have such a function. > > This is the best way I have found of doing it: > > Fortunately, the time module does. > > time.strptime
Yeah, I know. I used time.strptime in the function which you didn't quote. The point is that a hypothetical datetime.datetime.strptime function would return a datetime object, whereas time.strptime returns a struct_time, which is much less useful. Hence a couple of hoops to jump through to convert a struct_time into a datetime.. -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
