Time functions

HMS Surprise

I wish to generate a datetime string that has the following format.
'05/02/2007 12:46'. The leading zeros are required.

I found '14.2 time' in the library reference and have pulled in
localtime. Are there any formatting functions available or do I need
to make my own? Perhaps there is something similar to C's printf
formatting.

Thanks,

jvh (whose newbieism is most glaring)

May 2 '07 #1

HMS Surprise

On May 2, 12:00 pm, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoiceint.comwrote:

I wish to generate a datetime string that has the following format.
'05/02/2007 12:46'. The leading zeros are required.

I found '14.2 time' in the library reference and have pulled in
localtime. Are there any formatting functions available or do I need
to make my own? Perhaps there is something similar to C's printf
formatting.

Thanks,

jvh (whose newbieism is most glaring)

Oops, it appears I overlooked strftime.

Regrets,

jvh

May 2 '07 #2

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

In <11*********************@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.c om>, HMS Surprise
wrote:

I wish to generate a datetime string that has the following format.
'05/02/2007 12:46'. The leading zeros are required.

I found '14.2 time' in the library reference and have pulled in
localtime. Are there any formatting functions available or do I need
to make my own? Perhaps there is something similar to C's printf
formatting.

You mean like `time.strftime()`!? :-)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

May 2 '07 #3

HMS Surprise

On May 2, 12:03 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.netwrote:

In <1178125256.640115.26...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.c om>, HMS Surprise
wrote:

I wish to generate a datetime string that has the following format.
'05/02/2007 12:46'. The leading zeros are required.

I found '14.2 time' in the library reference and have pulled in
localtime. Are there any formatting functions available or do I need
to make my own? Perhaps there is something similar to C's printf
formatting.

You mean like `time.strftime()`!? :-)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Thanks for posting.

I think I have an import misconception.

I use
import from time localtime, strftime
t = strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', localtime())

This works. How would one use it with the module name pre-pended?

thanx,
jvh

May 2 '07 #4

Matimus

On May 2, 10:21 am, HMS Surprise <j...@datavoiceint.comwrote:

On May 2, 12:03 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.netwrote:

In <1178125256.640115.26...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.c om>, HMS Surprise
wrote:

I wish to generate a datetime string that has the following format.
'05/02/2007 12:46'. The leading zeros are required.

I found '14.2 time' in the library reference and have pulled in
localtime. Are there any formatting functions available or do I need
to make my own? Perhaps there is something similar to C's printf
formatting.

You mean like `time.strftime()`!? :-)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Thanks for posting.

I think I have an import misconception.

I use
import from time localtime, strftime
t = strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', localtime())

This works. How would one use it with the module name pre-pended?

thanx,
jvh

I would think that what you have written there shouldn't work at
all...

it would need to be:

to use the prepended module name just do this instead:

May 2 '07 #5

Grant Edwards

On 2007-05-02, Matimus <mc******@gmail.comwrote:

>I think I have an import misconception.

I use
import from time localtime, strftime
t = strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', localtime())

This works. How would one use it with the module name pre-pended?

I would think that what you have written there shouldn't work at
all...

It doesn't.

it would need to be:

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1. from time import localtime, strftime
2.  

to use the prepended module name just do this instead:

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1. import time
2. t = time.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', time.localtime())
3.  

or just this

t = time.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M')

time.strftime() has used the localtime() value by default for
a while now.
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May 2 '07 #6