On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, <loredana.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I want to convert a single date format I can do: > > import datetime, dateutil.parser > d = dateutil.parser.parse('2008-09-26) > print d.strftime('%A %d, %b %y' ) > > but if I want convert a long list of time how can do it in the fastest > way? > for example: > from ['2008-09-26', '2008-09-28', '2008-09-29',.............] > to ['26 sep','28 sep','29 sep',................]
import datetime from dateutil.parser import parse orig_dates = ['2008-09-26', '2008-09-28', ...]#etc converted_dates = [parse(datestr).strftime('%A %d, %b %y' ) for datestr in orig_dates] Or if an iterator would be okay instead of a list, you can substitute the list comprehension for itertools.imap(): #setup same as before from itertools import imap converted_dates = imap(lambda datestr: parse(datestr).strftime('%A %d, %b %y' ), orig_dates) Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list