Dennis Benzinger wrote:
Is there a library with a strftime replacement which supports Unicode
format strings?
Not that I know of.
I presume that you're not happy with workarounds like:
#>>import datetime
#>>now = datetime.dateti me.now()
#>>now.strftime ('Year=%Y Month=%m Day=%d')
'Year=2006 Month=08 Day=07'
#>>now.strftime (u'Year=%Y Month=%m Day=%d')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: strftime() argument 1 must be str, not unicode
#>>u'Year=%s Month=%s Day=%s' %
tuple(now.strft ime('%Y/%m/%d').split('/'))
u'Year=2006 Month=08 Day=07'
#>>>
You could generalise that by lashing up a function uniftime(obj,
unifmt) which would work on any obj with a strftime method: parse the
unifmt, build a strfmt with the components you want and some carefully
chosen separator (maybe a control character e.g. FS), call
obj.strftime(st rfmt).split(FS) to get your components, then blend the
components into the unicode constant parts of your unifmt -- easy :-)
Cheers,
John