Check for valid date
scott cotton
scott at chronis.pobox.com
Mon Jun 21 17:22:37 EDT 1999
you could try making sure that
strftime(your_format, strptime(date2check, your_format)) == date2check.
and checking for OverflowError & ValueError in the process.
scott
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 04:44:20PM +0000, Remi Delon wrote:
| Hi, I'm trying to use the time module to check whether a date is
| actually a valid day or not.
| Unfortunately, it looks like the strptime function only performs a basic
| range check. (for example, it will accept 02/30/199)
| Here is a little test I did:
|
| >>> strptime('02/30/1999','%m/%d/%Y)
| (1999, 2, 30, 0, 0, 0, 61, 0)
| >>> mktime((1999, 2, 30, 0, 0, 0, 61, 0))
| 920361600.0
| >>> ctime(920361600.0)
| 'Tue Mar 2 00:00:00 1999'
|
| Is there a way to check test whether the day actually exists or not ?
|
|
| I also have a totally different problem : I'm trying to get python 1.5.2
| to run with Tcl/Tk 8.1. Has anyone been able to do that on AIX ?
| I found 2 patches for tkinter that were supposed to fix the problems,
| but unfortunately, they don't work for AIX.
|
| Thanks
|
| Remi.
|
|
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