Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: Helmut Jarausch Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python3.3 email policy date field Date: 23 Aug 2012 12:30:36 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de NwSZ6Rz4xzK2ntSwRP0RwgbNjedoLrY4eFXLpL7De/0VI1260gDkh4txWlo9gjJB/id12+ycsP Cancel-Lock: sha1:tTYNk75x+jyVkC7/FHmX5jiIOAU= User-Agent: Pan/0.137 (The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour; GIT 9a6aef1 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:27729 On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:36:01 +0100, MRAB wrote: > From what I've tried, it looks like the date can't be a string: > > >>> m['Date'] = datetime.datetime.utcnow() > >>> m['Date'] > 'Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:33:20 -0000' Many thanks - it's even easier! Waiting for Python 3.3 to become standard! Helmut.