Hello Everyone,
I am a brand new Python programmer with barely a month of
experience under my belt.
Here are my specs:
Mac OSX Panther 10.3.9
Jython 2.1 implementation with Hermes BBS python module installed
And now the problem...
Right now I am having a small problem figuring out how to
properly format the "User Last Log-On" date for the new
external/door that I am writing for our Hermes BBS.
Initially, I was using the following in my user
initialization function near the top of the code:
user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime()
"user.data.usrUndrLast" is a user data object that I created
to display the last time that a person used the external. As
you can see, I an setting the value of the object to
"time.localtime()".
The problem is that the above code gave me a long string like
this:
(2006, 8, 19, 23, 39, 15, 5, 231, 0)
Well, that obviously was not what I wanted or needed. I don't
need seconds, or whatever that is that follows after
seconds...And that isn't the format I wanted either.
So I scrounged around in the example code for another
external I have here, as well as in the hermes.py, (module
which contains some of the BBS's proprietary functions), the
jython-2.1 folder, (Python implementation I am using with the
BBS), and even in my OSX Python installation, and then also
on the web, looking for a clue regarding how to get it to do
what I want it to do.
I figured out that adding [:3] like this:
user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime()[:3]
....would reduce it to just "(2006, 8, 19)", but that is still
not what I want it to do. The format is wrong.
I found a lot of interesting stuff inside of "rfc822.py"
concerning date and time formats, but I am still not grasping
quite how to do this.
Right now, I am getting a TypeError, I guess because
time.localtime only deals with integers, and I am trying to
throw strings at it as well, like this:
user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime('%a, %d %b %Y')
I was hoping that the above code would produce something like this:
Sun 20 Aug 2006
....but what I am getting is a TypeError which states:
"TypeError: localtime(): 1st arg can't be coerced to double"
So at this point, I am pretty stumped. In the list of
players, I just want it to show when they were last logged
into the external, preferably in one of the following
formats:
Sun 20 Aug 2006
Sun Aug 20 2006
Aug 20 2006
08-20-06
08-20-2006
08/20/2006
08/20/06
Once the above code, (user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime),
initializes their last log-on date, I am using the results in
a user list by appending the data to the user list like this:
for u in external.users.values():
usrList.append({
'name': u.data.usrUndrName,
'levl': u.data.usrUndrLevl,
'scor': u.data.usrUndrScor,
'last': u.data.usrUndrLast, # The one we're dealing with
})
The above list code queries the external for the values that
it has stored for each user. When it gets to the "last" item
in the list, the external is supposed to send it the value
for "u.data.usrUndrLast", (which it does), which is filled in
with the value of "time.localtime()" Once the list is made,
the "last" code will be displayed in the user list using this
piece of code:
print Style(fgLtGreen)('%(last)-10s' % markUsr)
For the record, I do have "import time" at the top of my
code. I looked all over the place for a module called
"time.py", but couldn't find one. So I didn't quite
understand where "time.py" was being imported from. I finally
figured that it must just be a function which is being
imported from one of the jython modules that I was looking
at...although I never found an exact function called "time()"
or "time.localtime().
So if anyone can lend me a hand with this, I'd really appreciate
it. I am really working hard, and doing the best I can to learn
Python, (my very first programming language), but I still require
some guidance.
If anyone here can tell me how to get the results that I want, I
would really appreciate if you would write to me directly at:
we*******@endtimeprophecy.net
Thanks so much.
