Stewart Midwinter wrote: > After an hour of research, I'm more confused than ever. I don't know > if I should use the time module, or the eGenix datetime module. Here's > what I want to do: I want to calculate the time difference (in > seconds would be okay, or minutes), between two date-time strings. > > so: something like this: > time0 = "2005-05-06 23:03:44" > time1 = "2005-05-07 03:03:44" > > timedelta = someFunction(time0,time1) > print 'time difference is %s seconds' % timedelta. > > Which function should I use?
Use datetime.datetime objects and subtract one from the other: http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-datetime.html import datetime time0 = datetime.datetime(2005, 5, 6, 23, 3, 44) time1 = datetime.datetime(2005, 5, 7, 3, 3, 44) td = time1 - time0 print 'time difference is %s seconds' % td The "td" object will be a datetime.timedelta object. Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
