[Tutor] datetime.strptime not matching timezone in format

[Abhishek Mishra]

%Z stands for time zone name in letters Eg. IST or EDT or GMT, so it would
fail to parse +05:30

However I do not have a solution to your problem but a footnote as hint -
http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#id1

-- Abhishek

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, vishwajeet singh <dextrous85 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to convert date string to datetime using datetime.strptime and
> when there is timezone part in string conversion is throwing errors.
>
> Here is what I am doing
> string_date = somedate.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
>
> and than later in some other part of code
> actual_date = datetime.strptime(string_date,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
>
> I am getting following error for this conversion "*time data 'Tue, 04 May
> 2010 14:59:45 +05:30' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z'*"
>
>  All formats without timezone works perfectly fine.
>
> --
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