Τη Παρασκευή, 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2013 2:57:03 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Michael Ross έγραψε: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:12:40 +0100, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > Please i have been trying hours for this: > Don't do that: Spending hours on being stuck. Take a break. Call it a > > night. > > Brain needs time to unstick itself. > Besides: > >>> from datetime import date > >>> entry='31 03 2013' > >>> day, month, year = int(entry[:2]), int(entry[3:5]), int(entry[6:]) > > > > >>> mydate=date(year,month,day) > >>> mydate.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') > > '2013-03-31' Tis seems very nice solution but also we need to check the user input for validity. What if the user entered: 29 15 2013 ? i tried to use your method applying some date validation check but that also failed for me: try: if( datetime.strptime(date, '%d m% %Y') ): day, month, year = int(date[:2]), int(date[3:5]), int(date[6:]) date = date(year, month, day) date = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') except: print "....." ======================== Isn't method strptime check the user input for validity? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list