Converting DD MM YYYY into YYYY-MM-DD?

[Gilles Ganault]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:03:47 +1000, Ben Finney
<ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>The principles of handling text in Python: Get it to internal Unicode
>objects as soon as possible, handle it as Unicode for as long as
>possible, and only encode it to some byte stream for output as late as
>possible.

Thanks much for the tip. I'll keep that in mind when I have strings
with accents.