[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello there > > Messing around with certain time and datetime objects, I have managed to > subtract a date/time from the present time thusly: >
datetime is definitely a module that takes a little getting used to. > from time import * > (Bad form) > import datetime > > one = datetime.datetime.now() > two = datetime.datetime(2007, 8, 29, 11, 15, 00) > > difference = one - two > > print difference > > However, I have to take a date from a file and then insert it to where two > should be, however to no success. I have managed to get a string containing > the above date/time, but that is as far as I've gotten without it not > working. > You don't show the format of the date string, but I'll show an example: >>> from datetime import datetime >>> start = datetime.strptime( '10:24:03 2006-11-01', '%H:%M:%S %Y-%m-%d' ) >>> end = datetime.strptime( '11:10:33 2006-11-01', '%H:%M:%S %Y-%m-%d' ) >>> delta = end - start >>> print delta.seconds 2790 Is that what you need? Take a skim through the library reference for the entire module. The result of the subtraction is a timedelta object, you kind of need to know what's available overall to be able to pick out the right functionality. Hope that helps, e. > Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this properly? > > Also I wish to display the result only in seconds left, rather than the > current result, which just displays days/hours/minutes/seconds/milliseconds > left, but am again struggling to progress. > > Any help would be amazingly appreciated :) > > Thanks again > > -Dave > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
