Thanks for that tip Jarek, It worked a charm, I just created a format time string and used that in the compare against my XML and it work perfectly.
Thank you, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarek Zgoda Sent: 27 April 2007 13:01 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Re-ocurring Events Robert Rawlins - Think Blue napisał(a): > and I need to do and conditional that ensures start is before today's > date/time and end is after today's date/time. > > The string looks like: '2007-01-01 00:00:00' > > Do I have to convert this to a proper time object to do the comparison? Or > can I do it as a string? In the very specific case of string formatted as above, the string comparison will give the same results as in the case of datetime objects comparison. You just have to compare the same kinds of things. ;) -- Jarek Zgoda "We read Knuth so you don't have to." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
