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Re: get the min date from a list

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From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject Re: get the min date from a list
Date Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:19:50 +0300
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luofeiyu <elearn2014@gmail.com>:

>         y=time.strptime(time_part,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")

As I said, whether that works depends on your locale -- according to the
reference documentation.

In practice, I couldn't get that to fail in my tests. I would be on my
guard, though. That might mean I couldn't use strptime to convert the
dates.


Marko

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Re: get the min date from a list luofeiyu <elearn2014@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 22:10 +0800
  Re: get the min date from a list Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-14 20:19 +0300
  Re: get the min date from a list Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 18:21 +0000
    Re: get the min date from a list Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-15 21:31 +0100
    Re: get the min date from a list Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 15:13 -0600

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