Tip: Article Date needs to be Unicode String

[spedinfargo]

See my other thread here, but wanted to start a new thread in case anyone else ran into this tricky little issue.

When sending in your own date to create an article:

articles.append({
'title' :thistitle
,'url' :thisurl
,'date' :u' [' + mydate + ']'
,'description':description

You MAY need to make sure the date is a Unicode string in some instances.

For instance, I had this code to parse a number and create a formatted string for my date:

c = time.strptime(match2.group(1),"%Y%m%d")
mydate=time.strftime("%a, %b %d, %Y", c)

However, when I went to use mydate like this, it always got blown away and the recipe always reverted back to the current date:

,'date' :' [' + mydate + ']'


Just adding the "u" in front of what I was passing in seemed to do the trick.

It's not consistent, though - it might only happen if you're converting to a string using the strftime (I had another recipe where I didn't have to do this). Maybe there's something in the actual string that I'm sending in that is causing it to fail.

Possible bug?