locale settings and date parsing under windows

[AlienBaby]

Hi,

I'm attempting to convert some date-time strings from a text file
under windows into a datetime object as returned by strptime()

However, the strings can represent dates in various formats based on
the country of origin, for example shortened month names etc.. are
different between countries.

I am trying to set the correct locale for strptime to work, but I'm
having a lot of trouble doing this under windows.


IE, wher the date is in the Danish Language,

import locale
locale.setlocale('LC_ALL',locale.normalize('da_DK'))

gives

locale.Error: unsupported locale string.

I have tried various ways but always hit the same error.

I understand setting LC_ALL may not be what I require, I was first
looking to simply get the locale setting correctly before I started
changing only the date-time specific elements.



Any help or pointers much appreciated. Current searching around is
revealing a fair amount of confusion..!


Thanks,

Matt.

 

[AlienBaby]

Hi,

I'm attempting to convert some date-time strings from a text file
under windows into a datetime object as returned by strptime()

However, the strings can represent dates in various formats based on
the country of origin, for example shortened month names etc.. are
different between countries.

I am trying to set the correct locale for strptime to work, but I'm
having a lot of trouble doing this under windows.

IE, wher the date is in the Danish Language,

import locale
locale.setlocale('LC_ALL',locale.normalize('da_DK'))

gives

locale.Error: unsupported locale string.

I have tried various ways but always hit the same error.

I understand setting LC_ALL may not be what I require, I was first
looking to simply get the locale setting correctly before I started
changing only the date-time specific elements.

Any help or pointers much appreciated. Current searching around is
revealing a fair amount of confusion..!

Thanks,

Matt.

As often happens, writing that out and the working through a bit more,
I resolved my own question.

It ended up being a simple matter of translating from posix codes to
windows codes, so 'fr_FR' becomes 'French_France'...

thanks,

MAtt.

 

[Martin P. Hellwig]

As often happens, writing that out and the working through a bit more,
I resolved my own question.

It ended up being a simple matter of translating from posix codes to
windows codes, so 'fr_FR' becomes 'French_France'...

thanks,

MAtt.

You might also want to have a look at the contents of:
locale.locale_alias

 

[AlienBaby]

You might also want to have a look at the contents of:
locale.locale_alias

I did for a bit..

I tried, for example with French

from locale.locale_alias, you can find

'fr_FR' aliases to 'fr_FR.ISO8859-1'

but trying,

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'fr_FR.ISO8859-1')

gives

locale.Error: unsupported locale setting


I'm now just using a handbuilt dict that holds translations like

'fr_FR' : 'French_France'
'da_DK' : 'Danish_Denmark'

etc..

Thanks,

MAtt.

 

[python]

Matt,

I'm now just using a handbuilt dict that holds translations like

'fr_FR' : 'French_France'
'da_DK' : 'Danish_Denmark'

What sources are you using for your dict keys and dict values? I'm
struggling with the same issue and I'm looking for master references for
both sets of code.

Thank you,
Malcolm