> is the third column is only the microsecond? Yes.
> how could i get this to write with the rest of the time (the hh:mm:ss) ? It sounds like you really want the time formatted in a particular way, not just the numeric value of one or more fields. Look at the documentation for the strftime method of datetime objects for full details: http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior Here's a simple example: >>> import datetime >>> now = datetime.datetime.now() >>> now.strftime("%H:%M:%S.%f") '10:14:36.526110' Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list