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I have datetime object and my users provide their own format string to format the time in the way they like.

One way I find is to use '{:...}'.format(mydatetime).

lt = time.localtime(time.time()) d = datetime. datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(lt)) print(userString.format(datetime=d))

English users may provide '{datetime:%B %d, %Y}', which formats to December 24, 2013.

Chinese users may provide '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}' (in YYYYMMDD format, 年=Year, 月=Month, 日=Day).

But when executing '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}'.format(datetime=d), Python raises UnicodeEncodingError: 'locale' codec can't encode character '\u5e74' in position 2: Illegal byte sequence

I know there is a workaround that I can tell my Chinese users to give format string like '{datetime:%Y}年{datime:%m}月{datetime:%d}日', but cannot unicode character show in format_spec? How to solve this problem?

I'm using Windows.

Thanks

I have datetime object and my users provide their own format string to format the time in the way they like.

One way I find is to use '{:...}'.format(mydatetime).

lt = time.localtime(time.time()) d = datetime. datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(lt)) print(userString.format(datetime=d))

English users may provide '{datetime:%B %d, %Y}', which formats to December 24, 2013.

Chinese users may provide '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}' (in YYYYMMDD format, 年=Year, 月=Month, 日=Day).

But when executing '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}'.format(datetime=d), Python raises UnicodeEncodingError: 'locale' codec can't encode character '\u5e74' in position 2: Illegal byte sequence

I know there is a workaround that I can tell my Chinese users to give format string like '{datetime:%Y}年{datime:%m}月{datetime:%d}日', but cannot unicode character show in format_spec? How to solve this problem?

Thanks

I have datetime object and my users provide their own format string to format the time in the way they like.

One way I find is to use '{:...}'.format(mydatetime).

lt = time.localtime(time.time()) d = datetime. datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(lt)) print(userString.format(datetime=d))

English users may provide '{datetime:%B %d, %Y}', which formats to December 24, 2013.

Chinese users may provide '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}' (in YYYYMMDD format, 年=Year, 月=Month, 日=Day).

But when executing '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}'.format(datetime=d), Python raises UnicodeEncodingError: 'locale' codec can't encode character '\u5e74' in position 2: Illegal byte sequence

I know there is a workaround that I can tell my Chinese users to give format string like '{datetime:%Y}年{datime:%m}月{datetime:%d}日', but cannot unicode character show in format_spec? How to solve this problem?

I'm using Windows.

Thanks

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Python3.3: .format() with unicode format_spec

I have datetime object and my users provide their own format string to format the time in the way they like.

One way I find is to use '{:...}'.format(mydatetime).

lt = time.localtime(time.time()) d = datetime. datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(lt)) print(userString.format(datetime=d))

English users may provide '{datetime:%B %d, %Y}', which formats to December 24, 2013.

Chinese users may provide '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}' (in YYYYMMDD format, 年=Year, 月=Month, 日=Day).

But when executing '{datetime:%Y年%m月%d日}'.format(datetime=d), Python raises UnicodeEncodingError: 'locale' codec can't encode character '\u5e74' in position 2: Illegal byte sequence

I know there is a workaround that I can tell my Chinese users to give format string like '{datetime:%Y}年{datime:%m}月{datetime:%d}日', but cannot unicode character show in format_spec? How to solve this problem?

Thanks