On Mar 7, 9:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I figured I might as well share the code I ended up using, in case
> anyone else wants an easy way to get strings to, for instance, SQL-
> storable datetimes.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat test.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> from datetime import datetime
> import subprocess
>
> def parsedate( date ):
> p = subprocess.Popen(['date','+%s.%N',"--date=%s" %
> date],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> out = float(p.stdout.read())
> return "%s" % datetime.fromtimestamp(out)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -i test.py>>> parsedate("today")
>
> '2008-03-07 21:20:31.870489'>>> parsedate("tomorrow")
>
> '2008-03-08 21:20:40.516243'>>> parsedate("next monday")
>
> '2008-03-10 00:00:00'>>> parsedate("10pm last week")
>
> '2008-02-29 22:00:00'>>> parsedate("last tuesday")
>
> '2008-03-04 00:00:00'
I am a GNU newbie. (I know C &o.) Can you point me to a place to
find the source for 'date'?
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