Handling international dates in python

Question

I have a date that is either formatted in German for e.g,

2. Okt. 2009

and also perhaps as

2. Oct. 2009

Answer 1

Very minor point about your code snippet : I'm no python expert but I'd consider the whole flag to check for success + silently swallowing all exceptions to be bad form.

try/expect/else does what you want in a cleaner way, I think :

for l in locale.locale_alias:
    try:
        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, l)
    except locale.Error: # the doc says setlocale should throw this on failure
        pass
    else:
        print l