locale settings and date parsing under windows

[AlienBaby]

On Feb 3, 12:13 pm, "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hell... at dcuktec.org>
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> On 02/03/11 10:59, AlienBaby wrote:
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> > On Feb 3, 10:22 am, AlienBaby<matt.j.war... at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
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> >> I'm attempting to convert some date-time strings from a text file
> >> under windows into a datetime object as returned by strptime()
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> >> However, the strings can represent dates in various formats based on
> >> the country of origin, for example shortened month names etc.. are
> >> different between countries.
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> >> I am trying to set the correct locale for strptime to work, but I'm
> >> having a lot of trouble doing this under windows.
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> >> IE, wher the date is in the Danish Language,
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> >> import locale
> >> locale.setlocale('LC_ALL',locale.normalize('da_DK'))
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> >> gives
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> >> locale.Error: unsupported locale string.
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> >> I have tried various ways but always hit the same error.
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> >> I understand setting LC_ALL may not be what I require, I was first
> >> looking to simply get the locale setting correctly before I started
> >> changing only the date-time specific elements.
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> >> Any help or pointers much appreciated. Current searching around is
> >> revealing a fair amount of confusion..!
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> >> Thanks,
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> >> Matt.
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> > As often happens, writing that out and the working through a bit more,
> > I resolved my own question.
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> > It ended up being a simple matter of translating from posix codes to
> > windows codes, so 'fr_FR' becomes 'French_France'...
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> > thanks,
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> > MAtt.
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> You might also want to have a look at the contents of:
> locale.locale_alias
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I did for a bit..

I tried, for example with French

from locale.locale_alias, you can find

'fr_FR' aliases to 'fr_FR.ISO8859-1'

but trying,

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'fr_FR.ISO8859-1')

gives

locale.Error: unsupported locale setting


I'm now just using a handbuilt dict that holds translations like

'fr_FR' : 'French_France'
'da_DK' : 'Danish_Denmark'

etc..

Thanks,

MAtt.