Hi Brian and Dick, I for one have learnt a lot from this combined poke around the workings of datetime. The datetime.year thing never occurred to me, yet it was so obvious when I saw it being used.
I give you, my python alarm clock timing mechanism, final version! http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/qur2Pw95.html It works on the cmd line - python alarm.py 17:30 Sets the alarm for the next occurrence of 17:30, using nothing but datetime.datetime objects, and one timedelta (maybe). 'Twas a good discussion. : ) Liam Clarke On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:12:04 -0500, Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 2004-12-07 23:57: > > Dick Moores said unto the world upon 2004-12-07 12:04: > > > > <SNIP all of Dick and most of Brian's reply> > > > > > The note you reference: > > > > date2 is moved forward in time if timedelta.days > 0, or backward if > > timedelta.days < 0. Afterward date2 - date1 == timedelta.days. > > timedelta.seconds and timedelta.microseconds are ignored. OverflowError > > is raised if date2.year would be smaller than MINYEAR or larger than > > MAXYEAR. > > > > presupposes you are adding a timedelta to a datetime as in Tim's > > suggestion. It makes no promises if you were doing something goofy like > > I was. (If that is what you were trying to get me to see, sorry, but I > > missed it.) > > Hey Dick and all, > > I've taken a look at your code and finally seen what you meant, Dick. > You were trusting datetime (along the same lines that Tim suggested to > me) and thus weren't facing the problems I'd caused for myself. Sorry > for missing your point before. Thanks, > > Brian vdB > > > > > I hope this clarifies things some :-) > > Ah, irony! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- 'There is only one basic human right, and that is to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, to take the consequences. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
