Converting DD MM YYYY into YYYY-MM-DD?

[Rami Chowdhury]

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My sample interactive session (locale.setlocale and all) was on a 32-bit Vista 
install of Python 2.5, so it works on that...

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Rami Chowdhury
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On Monday 17 August 2009 19:46:24 Ben Finney wrote:
> Jonathan Gardner <jgardner at jonathangardner.net> writes:
> > On Aug 17, 5:20 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > > Instead, you should generate the map based on the standard library (in
> > > this case, the underlying C standard library) locale database
> > > <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html?highlight=locale%20date
> > >#lo...>:
> >
> > Does Windows support POSIX locales?
>
> If it does not, it should :-) since it addresses the problem in one
> standard place. It would be foolish for Python to re-implement that
> functionality when presumably the operating system already knows how to
> map between dates and locale-specific text representations.
>
> You'll need to check the operating system documentation for what
> alternative it might provide.
>
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> Ben Finney