TypeError when using Matplotlib's strpdate2num with Python 3.2

Question

In my current project I want to read some experimental data from a text file into Python using the following code:

import numpy as np
from matplotlib.dates i         


        

Answer 1

I had to remove the quotes from the example text. (using python3.4)

ValueError: time data '"04.10.2012 08:15:27"' does not match format '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S'

Answer 2

The workaround of unutbu work perfectly fine. Meanwhile it seems that the issue has been addressed. Using bytespdate2num() instead of strpdate2num() works for me.

Answer 3

Here is a workaround:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.dates as mdates

def bytedate2num(fmt):
    def converter(b):
        return mdates.strpdate2num(fmt)(b.decode('ascii'))
    return converter

date_converter = bytedate2num("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S")

data = np.recfromtxt('example.txt',
                     comments='#',
                     delimiter=';',
                     names=('time', 't_ref', 't_s', 't_amb1', 't_amb2', 't_amb3'),
                     converters={'time': date_converter})