From: Tony Mack <tmack@paris.CS.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:31:57 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: try casting strings to ints before parsing
X-Git-Tag: sfa-2.0-9~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ab0d9564822ed3e3f34aaf0c0051074d9e2332a;p=sfa.git

try casting strings to ints before parsing
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diff --git a/sfa/util/sfatime.py b/sfa/util/sfatime.py
index 478c5bee..c5d5afaf 100644
--- a/sfa/util/sfatime.py
+++ b/sfa/util/sfatime.py
@@ -13,7 +13,14 @@ the timezone, so that it's compatible with normal datetime.datetime objects.
 
 For safety this can also handle inputs that are either timestamps, or datetimes
 """
-    
+    # perpare the input for the checks below by
+    # casting strings ('1327098335') to ints
+    if isinstance(input, StringTypes):
+        try:
+            input = int(input)
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+          
     if isinstance (input, datetime.datetime):
         logger.warn ("argument to utcparse already a datetime - doing nothing")
         return input