Hi John,
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:57 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm trying to use Python's Modulus operator and getting weird
> results.
>
> I'm trying to calculate the week that a date falls on.
>
> My first week, week1 is:
>
> week1 = time.mktime(time.strptime("6 Jan 10", "%d %b %y"))
>
> My test date is:
> now = time.mktime(time.strptime("24 Jan 10", "%d %b %y"))
>
> (now - week1) % (3600*24*7) should result in c. 2.5 (week 3).
>
The modulo operator here will return the second of the week, not the week
number itself. You want (now - week1) / (3600*24*7).
-Nick
>
> Instead I'm getting a result of:
> In [45]: (now - week1) % (3600*24*7)
> Out[45]: 345600.0
>
> I'm using Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57) (default
> Fedora 12 RPM)
>
> Is this like the from __future__ import division issue?
>
> TIA,
> John
>
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