Re: plpython timestamp without time zone, showing up as text instead of timestamp

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Adrian Klaver
<adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>wrote:

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> Intended:
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/plpython-data.html
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> FYI, it would be a good idea to include the Postgres version. plpython has
> been undergoing a lot of changes recently, so it would help to peg where
> you are at in that sequence.

Ah, I see it now:
"All other data types, including the PostgreSQL character string types, are
converted to a Python str."
Thanks (as an aside Postgres 9.3 and python 2.7)

I find dateutil(https://labix.org/python-dateutil) a handy package to have
> in this situation. Use parse() from the parser module to do the heavy
> lifting of converting from a string into a date/datetime object.
>

I will look into that - thanks again.