[reportlab-users] Problems Printing Dates & Times -- FIXED

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:


>  I want to print the date and time a report is printed using the python

> datetime() module. It's not working as expected.



>  pg.drawCentredString(306,748,now)



>  Python apparently can't calculate the string width:


   It wasn't Python, but ReportLab. The latter was expecting a UTF8 formatted
string, not an ASCII string.

   I solved the problem by explicitly casting now to str().

Rich

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