Ross wrote: > There seems to be no shortage of information around on how to use the > time module, for example to use time.ctime() and push it into strftime > and get something nice out the other side, but I haven't found anything > helpful in going the other way. > > That is, given some formatted text describing times - is there something > that makes it easy to calculate time differences, or do I have to index > my way through the string pulling out characters, converting to integers > etc... > > Data is formatted: > > t1 = 09:12:10 > t2 = 11:22:14 > > I want to calculate tdiff = t2-t1 > > Any suggestions? (Thanks for anything you can offer)
The datetime module contains everything you need. Look at the strptime-function that will allow you to parse the above string to an actual datetime.time-object, and the you can subtract these to yield a datetime.timedelta-object. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
