[reportlab-users] Formatting a data in the PDF-File

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 19:38, Jürg Hofmann wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> In my report I should print datas in the format "dd.mm.yyyy". Is there a 
> reportlab-setup possibility to make this the default format for the 
> PDF-File?

I'm assuming you mean 'date' when you say 'data', in which case you will
want to use the 'date.strftime' method for datetime.date in the stdlib:

>>> datetime.date.today().strftime("%d.%m.%Y")
'13.08.2004'

or the .Format method for MXDateTime date objects.

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Craig Ringer