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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Sorry for the delay – it was a really long weekend for many of
us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Currently our strptime implementation is mostly built by
translating from Python formatting codes to .NET formatting codes and then
calling the .NET Formatting APIs. There’s apparently a difference here in that
.NET doesn’t allow random extra characters in its formatting strings, and
CPython does. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I’ve opened a bug on CodePlex (#776, <a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&WorkItemId=776">http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&WorkItemId=776</a>)
to track this. We’ll try and get to this for 1.0 but I’m not entirely sure we’ll
be able to get it done in time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Mike Raath<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 04, 2006 10:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.ironpython.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [IronPython] Bug in time.strptime?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Just wondering if this post
slipped in under the radar - can anyone please confirm whether this is a bug,
or if I could be using IronPython differently to achieve the same thing?<br>
<br>
I need to be able to interpret non-standard dates (the format of which I can't
dictate) and in CPython this is possible using the code below. <br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I'm getting an exception in IronPython which I don't get in
CPython. <br>
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>From the CPython console window:<br>
<br>
>>> import time, datetime<br>
>>> d = time.strptime("July 3, 2006 At 0724 GMT", "%B
%d, %Y At %H%M GMT") <br>
>>> print d<br>
(2006, 7, 3, 7, 24, 0, 0, 184, -1)<br>
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>From IronPython, a similar set of statements:<br>
<br>
engine.Execute("import datetime")<br>
engine.Execute("d = time.strptime(""July 3, 2006 At 0724
GMT"", ""%B %d, %Y At %H%M GMT"")") <br>
<br>
results in this exception:<br>
The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is a unknown word
starting at index 13.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
The word starting at index 13 is the "At" but the format string
provided should tell strptime how to interpret it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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