Converting DD MM YYYY into YYYY-MM-DD?

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Aug 17, 7:06 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Jonathan Gardner <jgard... at jonathangardner.net> writes:
> > Unfortunately, there isn't any string to date parsers in the built-
> > ins.
>
> Fortunately, Python 2.5 or later has the ‘datetime.strptime’ function.
>

Hate to weasel out of this one, but the language that strptime
provides is pretty limited. I don't find it useful except in the
trivial cases. Same goes for strftime. Also, both of these are very
Western European centric. Yes, Asian languages are supported but not
naturally.