Struggling to convert a mysql datetime object to a python string of a different format

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On 5 Αύγ, 11:55, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT), Íßêïò
> <nikos.the.gr... at gmail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> >                    for entry in row:
> >                            entry = datetime.datetime.strftime( entry, '%d %b, %H:%M' ) #!!!
> > this is wrong!
> >                            print ( ''' <td> %s </td> ''' % entry )
>
> > Apart from that i don't know how iam supposed to print it, because the
> > date string is the 3rd string in every row of the dataset.
>
>         As you state, it is the third item in each returned row... So why
> are you trying to treat EVERY item in the row as a date?

Because when i try to prin the 3 items liek that

print row[0], row[1], row[2]

it gives me an error, so i dont knwo how to tell it how to print the
3rd item differently.



>
>         Since MySQLdb appears to return datetime objects (my quick test is
> showing datetime.date for dates in a test database) you should be
> probably be using
>
>         formatted_entry = entry.strftime("%d... %M")

I tried that myself yesterday but look it fails to the following
message

 /home/webville/public_html/cgi-bin/index.py
   63
   64                         for entry in row:
   65                                 formatted_entry =
entry.strftime('%d %b, %H:%M')
   66                                 print ( ''' <td> %s </td> ''' %
entry )
   67
formatted_entry undefined, entry = '178-124-186.dynamic.cyta.gr',
entry.strftime undefined
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime'
      args = ("'str' object has no attribute 'strftime'",)