[Tutor] Re: How to compare to time strings?

[Prahlad Vaidyanathan]

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 A spewed into the ether:
> Hello,
> I have two time strings like 
> Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15
> and 
> Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21
> 
> How can I compare them and find out that 
> Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15 
> is before
> Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21
> ?
> 
> I can not use 
> strptime  function  , to convert it first,because I use windows and 
> there is not that function.
> Thanks for help
> Ladislav

You could use rfc822.parsedate(). Even if it doesn't work exactly the
way you want it to, it should provide a decent starting point.

pv.
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