Question

I am trying to port a program of mine from running on the CPython interpreter to IronPython. The latest part that stumps me is where I use the datetime class from the datetime module. Here is what happens when I try to use the strptime function.

» from datetime import datetime
» dt = datetime.strptime("21/11/06 16:30", "%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'type' object has no attribute 'strptime'
» 

Is there something I need to be aware of that makes datetime specially different in IronPython?

Answer 1

For no particular reason, datetime.strptime was missing until IronPython 2.7.1. If you’re stuck on an older version, you can use time.strptime instead.