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Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

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From Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com>
Date 2012-12-11 23:28 -0600
Subject Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Marc Christiansen
<usenet@solar-empire.de> wrote:
>>>> parse('1. Januar 2013')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 720, in parse
>     return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 310, in parse
>     raise ValueError("unknown string format")
> ValueError: unknown string format

A parserinfo class can be passed to parse() for unknown locale strings.

>>>> parse('1.2.2013') # ambiguous, I know
> datetime.datetime(2013, 1, 2, 0, 0) # should be datetime.datetime(2013, 2, 1, 0, 0)

In [2]: parse('1.2.2013', dayfirst=True)
Out[2]: datetime.datetime(2013, 2, 1, 0, 0)



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Greg Donald

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  Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-12-10 16:36 -0500
    Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-11 02:07 +0000
  Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 22:34 -0700
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  Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 01:25 -0700
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  Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 02:35 -0600
    Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 06:52 -0800
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    Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Marc Christiansen <usenet@solar-empire.de> - 2012-12-11 21:18 +0100
      Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 23:28 -0600
    Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-12 05:05 +0000
      Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 23:29 -0600

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