On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:54:32 -0700, matt.doolittle33 wrote: > Hey everybody, > > I am using 2.7 on Ubuntu 12.10. All I need to do is to print time with > the microseconds. I have been looking at the docs and trying things for > about half a day now with no success. Currently my code looks like > this: > > # write date and time and microseocnds > self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(strftime("%Y-%m-%d", )))) > self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(strftime("%H:%M:%S", )))) > self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(time())))
What's this time() function? Where does it come from, and what does it do? By the look of it, it merely returns the string "00:00:00". The time.time() function returns a number of seconds: py> "%s" % time.time() '1375445812.873546' so I'm not sure what function you are calling there. Also, you don't need to call str() before using the %s template, since that automatically converts any object to a string. Besides, time.strftime already returns a string. You can replace all of those above lines with a single format string: py> import time py> print(time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d\t%H:%M:%S")) 2013-08-02 22:31:14 If you google for "strftime millisecond" with the search engine of your choice: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=strftime%20millisecond you will find this bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue1982 Unfortunately, the %S.%f codes do not appear to work for me on Linux using Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.3. Perhaps you will have better luck. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list