On Aug 2, 1:16 pm, "krishnakant Mane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/08/07, Ian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >http://docs.python.org/lib/node85.html > > I looked there even before. > but could not figure out what the code did. > I know in that variable called s there was a string in a valid date format. > but when datetime.strptime was used, I did not understand the place > where a date object say d was created. > I would expect some thing like d = and the function. but I did not fine that. > only reference was the datetime module and the documentation is not as good. > another question I am getting is that where is the list of all > formatting characters. like for example Y is 4 digit year M is month > MM is month in 2 digits etc. > I am trying to locate a list of all these denoters. > can you provide me the place? > > > Then it's just: > > > if date_obj.day == 5: > > print 'It's the fifth day of the month' > > this was much better than the documentation, thanks, > regards, > Krishnakant.
The various flags for the strftime() are here, near the middle of the page: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html Not sure why the docs don't point to this page when talking about the datetime's almost identical method. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
