paul that is awesome.... so much better than what i did which was lamo brute force method. I formmatted and reformatted my input data and stuffed it in a HUGE dictionary.... it was stupid and kludgy.... i hope to study all these approaches and learn something.... here's what i came up with ... with my pea sized brain...
#!/usr/bin/env python # New in version 2.3 is the 'datetime' module (see standard library reference) # http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-datetime.html import datetime inseqs = { (1) : ['DAT_1', '01', '00:00:23', '00:08:23'], (2) : ['DAT_1', '02', '00:08:23', '00:09:41'], (513) : ['DAT_75', '10', '00:59:55', '01:11:05'], (514) : ['DAT_75', '11', '01:11:05', '01:16:15'], (515) : ['DAT_75', '12', '01:16:15', '01:34:15'], (516) : ['DAT_75', '13', '01:34:15', '01:45:15'], (517) : ['DAT_75', '14', '01:45:15', '01:48:00'] } mykeys = inseqs.keys() # first make a copy of the keys mykeys.sort() # now sort that copy in place for key in mykeys: event = inseqs[key] print '\n','Item #', key, event TD = datetime.timedelta h, m, s = event[2].split(':') zero_adjust = TD(hours=int(h), minutes=int(m),seconds=int(s)) # print ' Q___ ', key, event[:2], ': ', for item in event[2:]: hrs, mins, secs, = item.split(':') time1 = TD(hours=int(hrs), minutes=int(mins),seconds=int(secs)) print time1 - zero_adjust, print -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
