Converting DD MM YYYY into YYYY-MM-DD?

[Gilles Ganault]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:11:20 -0700, Rami Chowdhury
<rami.chowdhury at gmail.com> wrote:
>Could you let me know which platform this is on (Windows, *nix)? It may be a 
>locale encoding issue -- the locale.setlocale() function allows the second 
>argument to be a tuple of (locale_code, encoding), as below:
>
>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('FR', 'UTF-8'))

It's on XP, and I'm using ActivePython 2.5.1.1.
http://www.activestate.com/activepython/

Python doesn't like the above:

#locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('FR', 'UTF-8'))

Maybe it was introduced in more recent versions of Python?

>Since this is for a one-shot (and presumably threading-agnostic) program, and 
>a fairly trivially formatted date-string, I would suggest using 
>datetime.strptime 
>(http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime) and 
>not regular expressions (which IIRC have Issues with non-ASCII characters). 

If the regex library can only handle basic latin characters, I'll wait
until a script I'm running is done, and I'll upgrade to the 2.6.2.2 to
see how it goes.

Thank you.