On Friday 17 December 2004 15:40, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "GMane Python" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if there is an existing function that would let me > > determine the difference in time. To explain: > > > > Upon starting a program: > > > > startup = time.time() > > > > After some very long processing: > > now = time.time() > > > > print <days> <hours> <minutes> <seconds>, now - startup > > > > So, to print in a formatted way (D-H-M-S) the difference in time of > > startup and now. > > now - startup gives you the difference in seconds; turning that into (days, > hours, minutes, seconds) isn't that hard (hint: lookup the divmod function > in the manual).
I've been struggling with that too. Here's some more documentation: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html I have a followup question on this, slightly off-topic: What is the best/simplest method to transfer a time to W3C XML Schema's type duration[1]? Is there any helper function for that? Cheers, Frans 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#duration -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
