On Dec 21, 3:05 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> tekionwrote:
> > Ben,
> > I do not have python 2.6 install, my version of Python is 2.4.
> > Because of my version of Python I believe I have to perform what you
> > have suggested:
>
> > This should, ideally, consist of two separate operations:
>
> > * parse the string, using a specific format, to create a ‘datetime’
> > object
>
> > * create a string representation of the datetime using your
> > preferred
> > string format
>
> > So I guess I am stuck on parsing the string "24/Nov/2009:12:00:00
> > -0500" using regex and or string function to get the output to
> > "2009-11-24 12:00:00". It looks like I may have to use regex to
> > accomplish this and also re-map Nov to "11". Does any one have any
> > idea that would take "24/Nov/2009:HH:MM:SS" and format it to
> > "2009-11-24 HH:MM:SS"? Thanks
>
> If you don't have the 'datetime' module then you can use the 'time'
> instead. Use time.strptime() to parse the string and time.strftime() to
> create the new string.
Thanks. This is what I have:
time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.strptime("24/Nov/
2009:12:00:00", "%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S")
and it seems to work.
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