Time

[Jonas Galvez]

If I have a tuple like this:

(year, month, day, hour, minute)

Is there a way to automatically generate a string like this?

"YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:00"

I remember seeing something about it somewhere... wanted to be sure.



Thanks in advance,



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[William Park]

Re: Time

Jonas Galvez <jonas@jonasgal vez.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> If I have a tuple like this:
>
> (year, month, day, hour, minute)
>
> Is there a way to automatically generate a string like this?
>
> "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:00"
>
> I remember seeing something about it somewhere... wanted to be sure.[/color]

Hint:
'%02d' % 4

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca>
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[Peter Hansen]

Re: Time

Jonas Galvez wrote:
[color=blue]
> If I have a tuple like this:
>
> (year, month, day, hour, minute)
>
> Is there a way to automatically generate a string like this?
>
> "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:00"
>
> I remember seeing something about it somewhere... wanted to be sure.[/color]

You want to read about the "time" module:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> t = (2004, 4, 21, 15, 33)
>>> import time
>>> time.strftime(' %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:00', t+(0,0,0,0))[/color][/color][/color]
'2004-04-21T15:33:00'

I left the "T" in there as a literal because I don't know what you
meant it to be and there's no obvious single-character substitution.

-Peter

[Jonas Galvez]

Re: Time

Thanks all.
[color=blue]
> [Mike Fletcher]
> That format is the ISO standard date-time format. The modern way
> to work with date-times in Python is to use the datetime module,
> so:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> import datetime
> >>> d = datetime.dateti me( 2004, 4, 21, 15, 05)
> >>> d.isoformat()[/color][/color]
> '2004-04-21T15:05:00'
>
> You can use datetime.dateti me( * mytuple ) to auto-unpack your
> tuple, btw.[/color]

Cool, that's what I was looking for.
[color=blue]
> [Peter Hansen]
> You want to read about the "time" module:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> t = (2004, 4, 21, 15, 33)
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strftime(' %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:00', t+(0,0,0,0))[/color][/color]
> '2004-04-21T15:33:00'
>
> I left the "T" in there as a literal because I don't know what you
> meant it to be and there's no obvious single-character
> substitution.[/color]

The "T" is from the W3C format:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

I need it to generate valid RSS/ATOM feeds.



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