Frederic Rentsch wrote:
> At some later point I need to increment my units some more and probably
> will again a number of times. Clearly this has to go into a function.
since Python is an object-based language, clearly you could make your
counter into a self-contained object instead of writing endless amounts
of code and wasting CPU cycles by storing what's really a *single* state
in a whole bunch of separate variables.
in your specific example, you can even use an existing object:
t = datetime.datetime.now()
# increment
t += datetime.timedelta(milliseconds=msec)
print t.timetuple() # get the contents
if you're doing this so much that it's worth streamlining the timedelta
addition, you can wrap the datetime instance in a trivial class, and do
t += 1500 # milliseconds
when you need to increment the counter.
> This is a little like a shop where the mechanics have to get their
> tools and work pieces from the manager and hand them back to him when
> they're done.
that could of course be because when he was free to use whatever tool he
wanted, he always used a crowbar, because he hadn't really gotten around
to read that "tool kit for dummies" book.
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