[techtalk] python problem

[Neil ''Fred'' Picciotto]

i have a weird python bug which i can't figure out...

consider the following simple python script, test.py:

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#!/usr/bin/python

import time

format = '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'
timetuple1 = time.localtime(time.time())
timestring = time.strftime( format , timetuple1 )
timetuple2 = time.strptime( timestring , format )
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so all it's doing is getting the time as a tuple, formatting it as a
string, and then trying to parse that string back as a tuple.

when i run it, i get:

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Traceback (innermost last):
  File "./test.py", line 8, in ?
    timetuple2 = time.strptime( timestring , format )
ValueError: format mismatch
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am i missing something, or is this a bug in the python interpreter?

...derF\lieN

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