Figured this out. I thought I'd post my results in case it is helpful to someone else.
----------------------------------8<---------------------------------- import locale, time # save old locale old_loc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME) locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'nl_NL') # seems to be the only way to avoid a ValueError from _strptime... # now that's a badly behaved module! import _strptime; reload(_strptime) # parse local date date = '10 augustus 2005 om 17:26' format = '%d %B %Y om %H:%M' dateTuple = time.strptime(date, format) # switch back to previous locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, old_loc) ---------------------------------->8---------------------------------- If I try to do further date parsing in the same scope (with a different locale), it fails. Let me know if you have any ideas about why. -- Adam Monsen http://adammonsen.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
