Well, sorry for the message above. There is a problem but it is with
strptime() actually.

>>> time.strptime("2009-12-01", "%Y-%m-%d")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 461, in
_strptime_time
    return _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 307, in _strptime
    _TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 188, in __init__
    self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 72, in __init__
    self.__calc_month()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 98, in
__calc_month
    a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 98, in <listcomp>
    a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/calendar.py", line 60, in __getitem__
    return funcs(self.format)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3:
invalid data