Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > So, let's see now... I identified that your Thesaurus code: > > * will fail silently; > * contains dead code that is never used; > * contains redundant code that is pointless; > * hides errors in the caller's code; > > and you consider this

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:08:34 -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2012 03:12:19 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Is this intended as a ready-for-production class? > > For me, yes. In production code. > >> py> d = Thesaurus() >> py> d['spam'] = {} > > Maybe because spam is type dict in

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:08:34 -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2012 03:12:19 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Is this intended as a ready-for-production class? > > For me, yes. In production code. > >> py> d = Thesaurus() >> py> d['spam'] = {} > > Maybe because spam is type dict in

Re: problem with usbtmc-communication

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jean Dubois wrote: > > I found examples in the usbtmc kernel driver documentation (the > examples there are given in C): > http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/usbtmc.htm?&cc=BE&lc=dut Thanks for that link. I think it explains how the driver works pr

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The question is not "will it parse", but will it parse CORRECTLY? > > What will it parse 11/12/10 as, and how do you know that is the intended > date? If it were me I'd look at more of the source dates I was tasked with parsing and dial i

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Marc Christiansen wrote: parse('1. Januar 2013') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 720, in > parse > return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs) > File

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:35:29 -0600, Greg Donald wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:31PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: >> I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil. It has a nice >> submodule called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with >> good accuracy. Not sure how it wo

PyParsing contextual suggestions?

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Re: Matplotlib/Pylab Error

On 10/12/2012 20:40, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, I am trying to enumerate few interesting errors on pylab/matplotlib. If any of the learned members can kindly let me know how should I address them. I think you'd get more responses if you post your questions on the matplotlib

Re: Matplotlib/Pylab Error

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:10:07 AM UTC+5:30, subhaba...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear Group, > > > > I am trying to enumerate few interesting errors on pylab/matplotlib. > > If any of the learned members can kindly let me know how should I address > them. > > > > I am trying to enumerate t

Re: Matplotlib/Pylab Error

On 10 December 2012 20:40, wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am trying to enumerate few interesting errors on pylab/matplotlib. > If any of the learned members can kindly let me know how should I address > them. > > I am trying to enumerate them as follows. > > i) >>> import numpy import pylab >>>

Re: Establishing Https connection

Many thanks, I will check it. Nenad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problem with usbtmc-communication

On Dec 11, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Jean Dubois wrote: [byte] >> >> OK - I see where the examples came from, and I notice - >> >> int my_inst; >> my_inst=open(“/dev/usbtmc1”,O_RDWR); >> write(my_inst,”*RST\n”,5); >> close(my_inst); >> >> and similarly in another place

Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping

Il giorno martedì 11 dicembre 2012 20:59:54 UTC+1, MRAB ha scritto: > > Hello, I have posted the same in XML group but it seems pretty dead there > > so I will repost here. > > > > > > I am new to xml processing in python. > > > I am looking to create XML. Xml is not too difficult so I thought

Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark

On 2012-12-12 00:36:29 +, alex23 said: On Dec 12, 7:23 am, Alex Clark wrote: TL;DR: Zope has a lot to offer, and there are times when you may need its libraries to perform complex tasks. I always avoided Zope as I kept hearing "there's the Python way and then there's the Zope way", howev

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On 12/11/2012 07:53 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: By the way, the Thesaurus class reminds me of using the old recipe called 'Bunch': http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-handy-collector-of-a-bunch-of-named/ like this: b = Bunch(x=1) b.stuff = Bunch(y=2) b.stuff.y 2 Sorry,

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On 12/11/2012 05:39 PM, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2012 16:53:12 Ian Kelly wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, how old are we talking? enumerate was added in >> Python 2.3, which is nearly 10 years old. Prior to 2.2 I don't think >> it was even possible to subclass dict, which wou

Re: Problem with print and output to screen

El martes, 11 de diciembre de 2012 20:07:09 UTC-3, Joel Goldstick escribió: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > > > On 12/11/2012 05:53 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > > When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included > > > in the result > > > > >

Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark

On Dec 12, 7:23 am, Alex Clark wrote: > TL;DR: Zope has a lot to offer, and there are times when you may need > its libraries to perform complex tasks. I always avoided Zope as I kept hearing "there's the Python way and then there's the Zope way", however, all that did is lead me to avoid a frame

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

2012/12/11 Dennis Lee Bieber : > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:34:23 -0300, peter declaimed > the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> >> stderrfile = '%s/error.log' % os.getcwd() >> stdoutfile = '%s/out.log' % os.getcwd() >> > Ouch... > > stdoutfile = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "o

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tuesday 11 December 2012 17:39:12 Dave Cinege wrote: My memory is getting jogged more why did some things: raise KeyError(key + ' [%s]' % i) I did this to specificly give you the indice that failed recursion but provide the entire key name as it was provided to __getitem__ So if: g.

Re: Problem with print and output to screen

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 12/11/2012 05:53 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included > > in the result > > > > try user[:-1] instead to strip the return from your printed text > > > > The catch to that is

Re: Problem with print and output to screen

On 12/11/2012 05:53 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included > in the result > > try user[:-1] instead to strip the return from your printed text > The catch to that is the last line in the file might not have a newline. In that case, w

Re: Problem with print and output to screen

When you read the file line by line the end of line character is included in the result try user[:-1] instead to strip the return from your printed text On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Mike wrote: > Hello, I am learning python and i have the next problem and i not > understand how fix. > The

Re: Problem with print and output to screen

On 12/11/2012 05:31 PM, Mike wrote: > Hello, I am learning python and i have the next problem and i not understand > how fix. > The script is very simple, shows in the terminal the command but, the row is > divided in two: > Example: > > > /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov ga u...@example.com > |egrep "(z

Re: MySQLdb compare lower

On 11Dec2012 22:01, Anatoli Hristov wrote: | Excuse me for the noob question, but is there a way to compare a field | in mysql as lower() somehow? | | I have a situation where I compare the SKU in my DB and there are some | SKU that are with lowercase and some with uppercase, how can I solve | th

Re: MySQLdb compare lower

> I think this will work: > > sql = 'UPDATE product SET price=%s WHERE LOWER(sku)=%s' > cursor.execute(sql, (price, sku.lower()) > Thanks John, this works, I was about to make double check with lower and upper, but this saves me :) Thanks a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On 11Dec2012 15:57, Dave Cinege wrote: | On Tuesday 11 December 2012 01:41:38 Ian Kelly wrote: | > running into bugs like this: | > >>> thes = Thesaurus() | > >>> thes.update = 'now' | > >>> thes.update | > | > | | I've noticed this but it's mostly pointless, as meaningful code does work. | (Al

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tuesday 11 December 2012 16:53:12 Ian Kelly wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how old are we talking? enumerate was added in > Python 2.3, which is nearly 10 years old. Prior to 2.2 I don't think > it was even possible to subclass dict, which would make your Thesaurus > implementation unusable,

Problem with print and output to screen

Hello, I am learning python and i have the next problem and i not understand how fix. The script is very simple, shows in the terminal the command but, the row is divided in two: Example: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov ga u...@example.com |egrep "(zimbraPrefMailForwardingAddress:|zimbraPrefMailForward

Re: String manipulation in python..NEED HELP!!!!

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:39:27 +, duncan smith wrote: [snip] > >>> alpha = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" > >>> key = "XPMGTDHLYONZBWEARKJUFSCIQV" > >>> mapping = {} > >>> for i, ch in enumerate(alpha): > mapping[ch] = key[i] mapping = dict(zip(alpha, key)) -- To email me, substitute nowhe

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > and then I ran the examples, and the output was unchanged. As Steven > pointed out, I don't see how that first branch could succeed anyway, > since self.data is never defined. It occurs to me that the UserDict class does have a data attribute.

Re: MySQLdb compare lower

In Anatoli Hristov writes: > I have a situation where I compare the SKU in my DB and there are some > SKU that are with lowercase and some with uppercase, how can I solve > this in your opinion ? > def Update_SQL(price, sku): > db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","getit","opencart", > use_un

Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"

On 12/12/2012 2:48 AM, bitbucket wrote: On Monday, December 10, 2012 8:16:43 PM UTC-5, Mark Hammond wrote: "out" params are best supported if the object supplied a typelib - then Python knows the params are out and does the right thing automagically. If out params are detected, the result of the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2012 01:41:38 Ian Kelly wrote: >> Second, in __getitem__ you start a loop with "for i in >> range(len(l)):", and then you use i as an index into l several times. >> It would be cleaner and more Pythonic to do "for i, part

Re: String manipulation in python..NEED HELP!!!!

On 12 December 2012 07:52, Ross Ridge wrote: > John Gordon wrote: > > def encode(plain): > > '''Return a substituted version of the plain text.''' > > encoded = '' > > for ch in plain: > >encoded += key[alpha.index(ch)] > > return encoded > > Terry Reedy wrote: > >The tu

Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark

On 2012-12-11 21:01:03 +, Gregory Ewing said: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:13:43 -0500, Alex Clark wrote: > The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark I expect that I would find that hilarious if I knew anything about Zope :) It's probably a good thing I don't know much about Zo

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tuesday 11 December 2012 03:12:19 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Is this intended as a ready-for-production class? For me, yes. In production code. > py> d = Thesaurus() > py> d['spam'] = {} Maybe because spam is type dict instead of type thes??? >>> import thesaurus >>> thes = thesaurus.Thesauru

Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark

Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:13:43 -0500, Alex Clark wrote: > The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark I expect that I would find that hilarious if I knew anything about Zope :) It's probably a good thing I don't know much about Zope, because I'm already finding it hilarious. If I kn

Re: String manipulation in python..NEED HELP!!!!

John Gordon wrote: > def encode(plain): > '''Return a substituted version of the plain text.''' > encoded = '' > for ch in plain: >encoded += key[alpha.index(ch)] > return encoded Terry Reedy wrote: >The turns an O(n) problem into a slow O(n*n) solution. Much better to >

MySQLdb compare lower

Hello guys, Excuse me for the noob question, but is there a way to compare a field in mysql as lower() somehow? I have a situation where I compare the SKU in my DB and there are some SKU that are with lowercase and some with uppercase, how can I solve this in your opinion ? def Update_SQL(price,

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Tuesday 11 December 2012 01:41:38 Ian Kelly wrote: > running into bugs like this: > >>> thes = Thesaurus() > >>> thes.update = 'now' > >>> thes.update > > I've noticed this but it's mostly pointless, as meaningful code does work. (Also you stepped on the existing 'update()' dictionary method

Re: problem with usbtmc-communication

On 11 dec, 15:34, w...@mac.com wrote: > On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Jean Dubois wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 10 dec, 16:34, w...@mac.com wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Jean Dubois wrote: > > >> [byte] > >>> As you can see this approach suffers from the same "buffer problem" as > >>>

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

Greg Donald wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:31PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: >> I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil. It has a nice submodule >> called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with good >> accuracy. Not sure how it works, but it handles all the common A

Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping

On 2012-12-11 17:47, nenad.ci...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have posted the same in XML group but it seems pretty dead there so I will repost here. I am new to xml processing in python. I am looking to create XML. Xml is not too difficult so I thought to create it manually using ElementTree. Fi

Re: Establishing Https connection

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:26 PM, wrote: > Hello, > Once I get my xml populated I have to send it to web service. > Should I use httplib? > I am reading the docs and I have managed to open the connection with > httplib.HTTPSConnection(host[, port[, key_file[, cert_file[, strict[, > timeout[, sour

Re: String manipulation in python..NEED HELP!!!!

On 12/10/2012 5:59 PM, John Gordon wrote: def encode(plain): '''Return a substituted version of the plain text.''' encoded = '' for ch in plain: encoded += key[alpha.index(ch)] return encoded The turns an O(n) problem into a slow O(n*n) solution. Much better to build a

Establishing Https connection

Hello, Once I get my xml populated I have to send it to web service. Should I use httplib? I am reading the docs and I have managed to open the connection with httplib.HTTPSConnection(host[, port[, key_file[, cert_file[, strict[, timeout[, source_address]]) After that i intend to use HTTPConn

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Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping

Hello, I have posted the same in XML group but it seems pretty dead there so I will repost here. I am new to xml processing in python. I am looking to create XML. Xml is not too difficult so I thought to create it manually using ElementTree. First I noted that ET.toString does escape <>& but not

Re: String manipulation in python..NEED HELP!!!!

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Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:48:53 AM UTC-5, bitbucket wrote: > > I noticed that the argument type is different for the out param (16392 > instead of 8). However, it doesn't appear to me that its generating return > values instead of args (though I'm not very experienced in python). > I see

Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"

On Monday, December 10, 2012 8:16:43 PM UTC-5, Mark Hammond wrote: > "out" params are best supported if the object supplied a typelib - then > Python knows the params are out and does the right thing automagically. > If out params are detected, the result of the function will be a tuple > of (

Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:42:35 AM UTC-5, Paul Kölle wrote: > Before switching technologies I'd check if this solves your problem > > http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/archive/2009/01/14/pass-by-reference-parameters-in-powershell.aspx > > > TL;DR IMHO "out" parameters are basically pointer

JSON logging ?

Is it possible to change hooks or something to let the logging SocketServer stuff handle JSON instead of pickle ? I am thinking of sending my JSON dict data through the logging system to remote. A default standard way to send stuff back and forth would be welcome here. pickle uses eval still ? o

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

Am 11.12.2012 14:34 schrieb peter: On 12/11/2012 10:25 AM, andrea crotti wrote: Ah sure that makes sense! But actually why do I need to move away from the current directory of the parent process? In my case it's actually useful to be in the same directory, so maybe I can skip that part, or othe

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

On 12/11/2012 10:57 AM, andrea crotti wrote: where in [] I have the PID of the process. In this suggested way I should use some other files as standard output and error, but for that I already have the logging module that logs in the right place.. It's not realy neccesary do use the stderr and st

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:35:29 AM UTC-5, Greg Donald wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:31PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil. It has a nice submodule > > > called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with good > > > accura

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

2012/12/11 Jean-Michel Pichavant : > - Original Message - >> So I implemented a simple decorator to run a function in a forked >> process, as below. >> >> It works well but the problem is that the childs end up as zombies on >> one machine, while strangely >> I can't reproduce the same on m

Re: problem with usbtmc-communication

On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Jean Dubois wrote: > On 10 dec, 16:34, w...@mac.com wrote: >> On Dec 10, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Jean Dubois wrote: >> >> [byte] >>> As you can see this approach suffers from the same "buffer problem" as >>> the approach with readline did. One now good argue as a workaro

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

- Original Message - > So I implemented a simple decorator to run a function in a forked > process, as below. > > It works well but the problem is that the childs end up as zombies on > one machine, while strangely > I can't reproduce the same on mine.. > > I know that this is not the per

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

2012/12/11 peter : > On 12/11/2012 10:25 AM, andrea crotti wrote: >> >> Ah sure that makes sense! >> >> But actually why do I need to move away from the current directory of >> the parent process? >> In my case it's actually useful to be in the same directory, so maybe >> I can skip that part, >> o

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

On 12/11/2012 10:25 AM, andrea crotti wrote: Ah sure that makes sense! But actually why do I need to move away from the current directory of the parent process? In my case it's actually useful to be in the same directory, so maybe I can skip that part, or otherwise I need another chdir after.. Y

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

Ah sure that makes sense! But actually why do I need to move away from the current directory of the parent process? In my case it's actually useful to be in the same directory, so maybe I can skip that part, or otherwise I need another chdir after.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

On 12/11/2012 08:47 AM, andrea crotti wrote: Yes I wanted to avoid to do something too complex, anyway I'll just comment it well and add a link to the original code.. But this is now failing to me: def daemonize(stdin='/dev/null', stdout='/dev/null', stderr='/dev/null'): # Perform first fo

m2crypto load from memory to ctx.set_tmp_dh()

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Re: forking and avoiding zombies!

Yes I wanted to avoid to do something too complex, anyway I'll just comment it well and add a link to the original code.. But this is now failing to me: def daemonize(stdin='/dev/null', stdout='/dev/null', stderr='/dev/null'): # Perform first fork. try: pid = os.fork() if

Re: MySQLdb insert HTML code error

> SSCCE starts with "Short". The HTML you unloaded into that email > hardly qualifies. > > When you're trying to figure out a problem that appears to happen only > when you have X and not when you have Y, see what the smallest example > data for X and Y are that continue to exhibit the difference.

Re: open URL in the current tab

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Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

- Original Message - > Thesaurus: A different way to call a dictionary. > > Thesaurus is a new a dictionary subclass which allows calling keys as > if they are class attributes and will search through nested objects > recursively when __getitem__ is called. > > You will notice that the

Re: MySQLdb insert HTML code error

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Anatoli Hristov wrote: >> Brilliant, I think your problem is in line 97 of the code that you *HAVEN'T >> QUOTED*. Please go here, read and inwardly digest before you say anything >> else http://www.sscce.org/ > > :) I thought it was clear. the "spec" is the descr

Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"

Hi, Am 10.12.2012 20:13, schrieb bitbucket: I have an existing Windows application which provides an OLE Automation (IDispatch) interface. I'm not able to change that interface. I'd like to call it from a scripting language. I figure this would provide a nice quick way to invoke on the app.

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:34:31PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil. It has a nice submodule > called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with good > accuracy. Not sure how it works, but it handles all the common American > date formats I'

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

n Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 12/11/2012 01:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> That sort of statement will get you either amusement or ire, depending >> on the respondent. From me, amusement, because there are enough >> "common American date formats" for you to feel you'v

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On 12/11/2012 01:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > That sort of statement will get you either amusement or ire, depending > on the respondent. From me, amusement, because there are enough > "common American date formats" for you to feel you've done a thorough > test. Also what I meant was common "eng

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On 12/11/2012 01:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > There are a LOT more date formats than those used in the USA. The most > obvious trio is American MDY, European DMY, Japanese YMD, but there > are plenty more to deal with. Have fun. For the record I didn't write the module, so I don't care whether o

Re: ANNOUNCE: Thesaurus - a recursive dictionary subclass using attributes

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:48:50 -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: > Thesaurus: A different way to call a dictionary. Is this intended as a ready-for-production class? > Thesaurus is a new a dictionary subclass which allows calling keys as if > they are class attributes and will search through nested objec

Re: strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > I use a module I got from pypi called dateutil. It has a nice submodule > called parser that can handle a variety of date formats with good > accuracy. Not sure how it works, but it handles all the common American > date formats I've throw