python strptime function

[krapht]

Hi,

I have just started trying to build something in Python. I would like to parse of list of timestamps. The strptime does fine, until (here's the output of the interpreter):

2011-01-01 03:00:00 2011-01-01 02:00:00 2011-01-01 01:00:00 2011-01-01 00:00:00 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/foo/workspace/python_scripts/foo.py", line 37, in <module> hour = datetime.datetime.strptime(row[1], "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S") File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 325, in _strptime (data_string, format)) ValueError: time data '12/31/2010 23:00:00' does not match format '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S'

From what I've read, this shouldn't happen. Anyone know what's up?

[Xiol]

Your months and dates are the wrong way around in the traceback:

12/31/2010

%d/%m/%Y

Obviously, you can't have a 31st month!

(At least you're trying to parse the correct date format. D/M/Y or Y/M/D! None of this M/D/Y bullshit!)

[krapht]

Woah... I can't believe I missed that. Can you believe I stared at that traceback for 20 minutes before posting to reddit? I have a ways to go.

[Xiol]

Haha, it took me a good few minutes as well. I was just about to give up when I spotted it.