still doesnt work On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:45:47 AM UTC+1, Pystar wrote: > > OK, After doing type(item.now). I discovered that web2py is escaping my > retrieved data from the database and converting everything into strings. > And since prettydate() doesnt work on strings but datetime objects, it > fails. > For this prettydate to work in the views, I would have to > import datetime and do > datetime.datetime.strptime(item.now, [format]) in order to format the > datetime object that has now being converted into a string back to a > datetime object and then allow prettydate() to work its magic. The only > problem I am having now is knowing the correct format to pass to the > strptime() function as all I have used is raising this error: "2012-08-15 > 01:38:15.019797' does not match format '%Y, %m, %d, %H, %M, %S, %f'" > I need help thanks > > On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:57:45 PM UTC+1, Pystar wrote: >> >> It fails silently, it outputs nothing. >> >> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:34:54 PM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: >>> >>> item.now is a field in my database whose default value is request.now. >>> >>> >>> Yes, I understand, but can you report the error raised as well as >>> checking the type of item.now? >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>
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