Robert wrote: >A certain DAV server reports a time stamp as "Tues, 30 Aug 2005 20:48:31" > ( but not "Tue, ..." as usual)
> I also don't see how to alter the pattern for strptime to be tolerante for > more long weekday strings? > Any ideas? why bother parsing the day name at all? (just split the string at the first command and use strptime on the rest) > Shouldn't it be possible to insert real regexp-like stuff in the pattern? if you need an RE, use an RE. no need to use strptime if you don't what that behaviour (to convert the RE result to a time value, use time.mktime, calender.timegm, or the datetime module, depending on what you want) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
