On 12 Apr 2006 13:20:28 -0700, rumours say that "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>Hello -- >I'm parsing the output of the finger command, and was wondering >something...If I'm given a month abbrievation (such as "Jan"), what's >the best way to figure out the month number? Try import time help(time.strftime) and then this *might* work for you: month_as_string= "Jan" time.strptime(month_as_string, "%b").tm_mon "Localization" (as Fredrik also suggested) is the reason for the *might* in my previous sentence. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Dear Paul, please stop spamming us." The Corinthians -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
