Syntax Problem with strptime in Python 2.4

[W. eWatson]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> W. eWatson wrote:
> 
>> Apparently, use of strptime of datetime needs a workaround in Python 2.4
>> to work properly. The workaround is d =
>> datetime.datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:5])). However,
>> when I try to use it, or even use it the regular way, it fails with
>> AttributeError: type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute
>> 'datetime'.
>>  From the following code code segment:
>>
>> format = '%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'
>> #d=datetime.strptime('20080321_113405', format)-- typical use
>> print time.strptime('20080321_113405', format)[0:5]
>> d = datetime.datetime(*time.strptime('20080321_113405', format)[0:5])
>>
>> Does anyone know how to make this work in 2.4? If not, is there a way to
>> achieve the same result?
> 
> This is not what you think it is. All your problem is that you do
> 
> from datetime import datetime
> 
> which imports the datetime-class, but then try to access
> 
> datetime.datetime
> 
> as if you had done
> 
> import datetime.
> 
> 
> This actually is a wart in the datetime-module - it would be better if the
> classes in there would follow PEP-8.
> 
> Diez
That's it. Thanks.

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