Parsing a date-time string?

[Tim N. van der Leeuw]

Hi,

I want to parse strings containing date-time, which look like the
following:

"Mon Dec 19 11:06:12:333 CET 2005"

That's a problem for strptime it seems, b/c I cannot find any
format-spec for the milliseconds-part in here. (I'm also not sure about
the validity of the tz part, but ...)

As an aside, the dates are all in english while my PC might have a
dutch locale -- not even sure about what Python would consider the
current locale.
So that's an extra obstacle to parsing these dates.

The datetime module doesn't seem to provide a better solution either.

What I want to get is some sort of sortable date; either as a number or
(if nothing else) as a string in ISO8601 format.
(But I want to avoid doing too many string manipulations on my input
dates; and changing the dateformat of the input-source will be hard if
at all justifiable.)


Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

--Tim

[Fuzzyman]

Re: Parsing a date-time string?

Quick response - there is a DateUtil module with a *very* flexible
string-to-date parser. It will almost certainly do what you want :

http://labix.org/python-dateutil

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

[linda.s]

Re: Parsing a date-time string?

Hi Fuzzyman,
I also wanted to install the DateUtil module from

http://labix.org/python-dateutil

but had problems (using Windows).
C:\Python24>pyt hon python-dateutil-1.0\setup.py build
running build
running build_py
error: package directory 'dateutil' does not exist
Can you tell me why?
Linda

On 21 Dec 2005 01:53:49 -0800, Fuzzyman <fuzzyman@gmail .com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Quick response - there is a DateUtil module with a *very* flexible
> string-to-date parser. It will almost certainly do what you want :
>
> http://labix.org/python-dateutil
>
> All the best,
>
> Fuzzyman
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
>
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>[/color]

[linda.s]

Re: Parsing a date-time string?

I did check and found 'dateutil' is under
the folder of python-dateutil-1.0
very confused, :(

On 12/21/05, linda.s <samrobertsmith @gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi Fuzzyman,
> I also wanted to install the DateUtil module from
> http://labix.org/python-dateutil
> but had problems (using Windows).
> C:\Python24>pyt hon python-dateutil-1.0\setup.py build
> running build
> running build_py
> error: package directory 'dateutil' does not exist
> Can you tell me why?
> Linda
>
> On 21 Dec 2005 01:53:49 -0800, Fuzzyman <fuzzyman@gmail .com> wrote:[color=green]
> > Quick response - there is a DateUtil module with a *very* flexible
> > string-to-date parser. It will almost certainly do what you want :
> >
> > http://labix.org/python-dateutil
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Fuzzyman
> > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
> >
> > --
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> >[/color]
>[/color]

[Tim N. van der Leeuw]

Re: Parsing a date-time string?

I downloaded the tar.bz2 file, extracted it, and had no problem
building it and creating a windows installer using 'python ./setup.py
bdist_wininst'

This windows installer I then used to install it via the 'official
windows' way :)

luck,

--Tim

[Tim Roberts]

Re: Parsing a date-time string?

"Tim N. van der Leeuw" <tim.leeuwvande r@nl.unisys.com > wrote:[color=blue]
>
>I want to parse strings containing date-time, which look like the
>following:
>
> "Mon Dec 19 11:06:12:333 CET 2005"
>
>That's a problem for strptime it seems, b/c I cannot find any
>format-spec for the milliseconds-part in here. (I'm also not sure about
>the validity of the tz part, but ...)[/color]

Central European Time. GMT +1 hour. Quite valid.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[linda.s]

Re: Parsing a date-time string?

Hi,
I got the message of "There was an error in the DDE conversation with
Pythonwin" when I tried to run Pythonwin.
I googled and found the possible solution is:
modify the Pythonwin shortcut to pass a
"/nodde" command-line option.
I got lost how to do that.
Thanks for any help!