krishnakant Mane wrote: > On 02/08/07, Ian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://docs.python.org/lib/node85.html >> > I looked there even before. > but could not figure out what the code did. > I know in that variable called s there was a string in a valid date format. > but when datetime.strptime was used, I did not understand the place > where a date object say d was created. > I would expect some thing like d = and the function. but I did not fine that. > only reference was the datetime module and the documentation is not as good.
>>> import datetime >>> import time >>> fmt_string = '29/05/2005' >>> date_tuple = time.strptime(fmt_string, '%d/%m/%Y') >>> print date_tuple (2005, 5, 29, 0, 0, 0, 6, 149, -1) >>> date_tuple_minus_tz = date_tuple[0:6] >>> print date_tuple_minus_tz (2005, 5, 29, 0, 0, 0) >>> date_obj = datetime.datetime(*date_tuple_minus_tz) This last line is equivalent to the following: >>> date_obj = datetime.datetime(2005, 5, 29, 0, 0, 0) The * in front of a tuple expands it's arguments when making a function call >>> print date_obj 2005-05-29 00:00:0 >>> print date_obj.day == 5 False > another question I am getting is that where is the list of all > formatting characters. like for example Y is 4 digit year M is month > MM is month in 2 digits etc. > I am trying to locate a list of all these denoters. > can you provide me the place? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html Look for the strptime() function. > > >> Then it's just: >> >> if date_obj.day == 5: >> print 'It's the fifth day of the month' >> > this was much better than the documentation, thanks, > regards, > Krishnakant. Hope that helps. Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
