datetime string conversion error

Tue Mar 16 19:31:11 EDT 2010

On Mar 16, 11:56 am, Jordan Apgar <twistedphr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> here's what I'm doing:
> date = "2010年03月16日 14:46:38.409137"
>  olddate = datetime.strptime(date,"%Y-%m-%j %H:%M:%S.%f")
>
Due to circumstances, I'm using Python 2.5.4 on one machine (2.6 on
the other).
When I have a script as simple as this:
import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime('2010-09-14', "%Y-%m-%d")
Running this script brings up a calendar, believe it or not. The
calendar displays March 2010, and shows the 22nd as a holiday. When I
dismiss the dialog box I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "strptimetest.py", line 3, in <module>
 datetime.datetime.strptime('2010-09-14', "%Y-%m-%d")
 File "C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py", line 272, in <module>
 _TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
 File "C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py", line 191, in __init__
 self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
 File "C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py", line 74, in __init__
 self.__calc_weekday()
 File "C:\Python25\lib\_strptime.py", line 94, in __calc_weekday
 a_weekday = [calendar.day_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(7)]
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'day_abbr'
err... what? Is this an old weirdness I don't remember from the 2.5
series?
I can select dates in the calendar, but nothing dismisses it but the
close box.
Josh English
Incredibly Confused