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Tom Lazar wrote:
> thanks raphael,
> 
> i just wanted to avoid using this sort of stuff.
> 

while I can understand your sentiments it seems to be
the way Python is heading. At least from 2.5 onwards
datetime objects have strptime "build in".

Quote from http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-datetime.html

strptime(  	date_string, format)
     Return a datetime corresponding to date_string, parsed according to 
format. This is equivalent to datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, 
format)[0:6])). ValueError is raised if the date_string and format can't 
be parsed by time.strptime() or if it returns a value which isn't a time 
tuple.

     New in version 2.5.


Raphael

PS: if you feel uneasy about this you can still factor it out into
a utility method (isn't there a quills.utils already) and call this
instead.


> but that strptime will surely come in handy, i've gotta remember that  
> one!
> 
> @tim2p: perhaps this approach will help us push DateTime out of  
> quills.app?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> tom
> 
> On 24.09.2007, at 10:50, Raphael Ritz wrote:
> 
>> quills-dev at lists.etria.com wrote:
>>> Author: tomster
>>> Date: Sun Sep 23 22:19:20 2007
>>> New Revision: 49995
>>>
>> [..]
>>
>>> i couldn't find any documentation on how to convert  
>>> xmlrpc.DateTime into DateTime.DateTime
>> FWIW
>>
>> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 12 2007, 21:03:11)
>> [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> from xmlrpclib import DateTime as xdt
>>>>> from time import strptime
>>>>> from datetime import datetime
>>>>> xmlrpcdt = xdt()
>>>>> xmlrpcdt
>> <DateTime '20070924T10:44:06' at -482578f4>
>>>>> str(xmlrpcdt)
>> '20070924T10:44:06'
>>>>> datetimedt = datetime(*strptime(str(xmlrpcdt),"%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S") 
>>>>> [0:6])
>>>>> datetimedt
>> datetime.datetime(2007, 9, 24, 10, 44, 6)
>>>>> str(datetimedt)
>> '2007-09-24 10:44:06'
>>
>> Getting from Python's datetime objects to Zope's DateTime
>> is left as an easy exercise ;-)
>>
>> Raphael
>>
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