On Nov 10, 9:13 am, Zeynel <azeyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > For instance, when the tutorial > hashttp://docs.python.org/release/2.6/library/datetime.html > > class datetime.datetime > A combination of a date and a time. Attributes: year, month, day, > hour, minute, second, microsecond, and tzinfo. > > What does this mean? How do I use it? > > For instance, I have a DateTimeProperty mDate that I get from a query > in Google App Engine. This mDate has value > > mDATE = 2010-11-10 14:35:22.863000
Wait a minute i am confused...? Does Python have a "text" object that magically turns into a datetime object? >>> mDATE = 2010-11-10 14:35:22.863000 SyntaxError: invalid syntax hmm, apparently not! Usually in order to use methods of an object, you must create an object first or more specifically an instance. >>> dateobj = datetime.date(2010,11,10) >>> dir(dateobj) ['__add__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__radd__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rsub__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', 'ctime', 'day', 'fromordinal', 'fromtimestamp', 'isocalendar', 'isoformat', 'isoweekday', 'max', 'min', 'month', 'replace', 'resolution', 'strftime', 'timetuple', 'today', 'toordinal', 'weekday', 'year'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list