Thanks everyone for the help. This script is just a one-shot thingie on my work host, not as a web script or anything professional.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:05:28 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> wrote: >Unfortunately, there isn't any string to date parsers in the built- >ins. Not to worry, though, since writing your own is easy, especially >if you use regular expressions from the re module. I suggest using an >RE such as: > > r"(?P<date>\d+)\s+(?P<month>\w+)\s+(?P<year>\d+)" I've never seen regexes like this. I'm curious to know what those mean: r = Unicode? (?P<date> = ? means that it shouldn't be greedy, what about P<date>? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
