Bugs item #1280061, was opened at 2005-09-01 13:06 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by meonkeys You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1280061&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.4 Status: Closed Resolution: Wont Fix Priority: 5 Submitted By: Adam Monsen (meonkeys) Assigned to: Brett Cannon (bcannon) Summary: time.strptime() fails with unicode date string, de_DE locale Initial Comment: Trying to parse a German date string fails in Python 2.4.1. Test case attached. Since there's no indenting, I suppose the test case can also be pasted here: import locale, time locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'de_DE') date = u'10. September 2005 um 17:26' format = '%d. %B %Y um %H:%M' time.strptime(date, format) -- Adam Monsen http://adammonsen.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Adam Monsen (meonkeys) Date: 2005-09-06 11:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=259388 Ok, sounds good. For anyone trying to work around this, unicode date strings should be encoded to simple Python strings (type of str) before passing into strptime. Here's an updated version of the aforementioned test case demonstrating an acceptable workaround: import locale, time locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'de_DE') date = u'September'.encode() format = '%B' time.strptime(date, format) -- Adam Monsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://adammonsen.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon) Date: 2005-09-02 14:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=357491 OK, then that settles it. If time.strftime() ever returned unicode, I would say this needs fixing. But since time.strptime() is meant to be the mirror opposite of time.strftime(), I am going to close this as "Won't Fix". If time.strftime() ever gets changed to return unicode, then I will fix it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Adam Monsen (meonkeys) Date: 2005-09-02 13:57 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=259388 I get a str from time.strftime(). >>> import time >>> time.strftime('%B') 'September' >>> time.strftime('%B').__class__ <type 'str'> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon) Date: 2005-09-02 13:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=357491 Can you let me know what time.strftime() outputs for your test case, specifically what type of basestring (str or unicode)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Adam Monsen (meonkeys) Date: 2005-09-02 09:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=259388 Here's a simpler, more precise test case (also attached): import locale, time locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'de_DE') date = u'September'; format = '%B' time.strptime(date, format) Here's the error I see: Traceback (most recent call last): File "de_strptime_fail_simple.py", line 4, in ? time.strptime(date, format) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/_strptime.py", line 329, in strptime month = locale_time.f_month.index(found_dict['B'].lower()) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1280061&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
