[Jython-users] using java.text.DateFormat

[Mike H. <th...@bi...>]

Maybe I'm doing something dumb here -- I dunno.  I'll honestly admit that
I know more about Python than Java . . 

I'm wanting to emulate something like the time.strpformat in the
CPython/Unix library.  The closest I've found is the java.text.DateFormat class
in the Java standard library.  I think I'm using it right, but I get a
very strange error:

>>> from java.text import DateFormat
>>> date
'Wednesday February 20 12:06:17 CST 2002'
>>> t = DateFormat.parse(date)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: parse(): expected 2-3 args; got 1

According to the Java API docs, DateFormat.parse only requires 1-2 args:

parse
public Date parse(String text)
           throws ParseException

parse
public abstract Date parse(String text, ParsePosition pos)

Anyone have any suggestions??

-- mikeh