Kalle Anke wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:01:18 +0200, Larry Bates wrote: > >>but I'm not sure it is "better". I guess it depends >>on what you want to do with them after parsing. > > Sorry, I should have been clearer. I want to parse the date and create a > 'date object' that is a part of larger object (I'm parsing a text file that > represents the larger object and the date is a part of it). > > So my question should probably be: is there a better way to parse the date > and generate the 'date object' than the two step > > w = strptime(d,'%Y-%m-%d') > datetime.date( w[0], w[1], w[2] ) > > Since I'm new to many things in Python I'm trying to learn if there is a > "better" way of doing things.
You're still not defining what "better" means to you, so who can say? Perhaps you think a single line would be "better"? datetime.date(*time.strptime(d, '%Y-%m-%d')[:3]) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
