Re: Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode

2010-05-17 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM, wrote: > In researching a solution, I believe locale.getpreferredencoding() might > be a better choice (than locale.getdefaultlocale()[ 1 ]) for determining > a system's default encoding? I haven't used the locale module a lot, but it seems to me that if you're s

Re: Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode

2010-05-17 Thread python
>>> codePage = locale.getpreferredencoding() ... in my original post's code (original post follows my signature). Malcolm - Original message - From: pyt...@bdurham.com To: python-list@python.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:54:27 -0400 Subject: Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode I would li

Converting datetime.ctime() values to Unicode

2010-05-17 Thread python
I would like to convert datetime.ctime() values to Unicode. Using Python 2.6.4 running under Windows I can set my locale to Spanish like below: >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'esp' ) Then I can pass %a, %A, %b, and %B to ctime() to get day and month names and abbreviations