staticsafe wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Python 2.6.6 on a Debian Squeeze system. I am using two > modules in this bit of code - datetime and python-tvrage (available on > pypy here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-tvrage/). > > My goal is to find the time remaining until a certain show airs. Here is > some code I have written so far: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > from tvrage import quickinfo > from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime > > showinfo = quickinfo.fetch("Warehouse 13") > nextairdate = showinfo['RFC3369'] > now = datetime.now().isoformat() > > Now for my question/problem. > > In [68]: showinfo['RFC3339'] > Out[68]: '2012-09-10T21:00:00-4:00' > > In [72]: datetime.now().isoformat() > Out[72]: '2012-09-05T22:47:46.061688' > > isoformat() is in a different format than the value returned by the API. > My question is how would one format both values so that I can perform a > timedelta on them as is the purpose of my code? > > I hope I have provided the right amount of detail for my question.
After some trial and error: import dateutil.parser # python-dateutil import pytz # python-tz import datetime show_start = dateutil.parser.parse("2012-09-10T21:00:00-0400") now = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone("EST")) print "show starts: ", show_start print "current time:", now print "days to go: ", show_start - now (Caveat: I'm using Python 2.7) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor