I have a date expressed in seconds.
I'd want to pretty print it as "%H:%M" if the time refers to today and
"%b%d" (month, day) if it's of yesterday or before.
I managed to do that with the code below but I don't like it too much.
Is there a better way to do that?
Thanks in advance.
import time
today_day = time.strftime("%d", time.localtime(time.time()))
mytime = time.localtime(time.time() - (60*60*30)) # dummy time prior
to today
if time.strftime("%d", mytime) == today_day:
print time.strftime("%H:%M", mytime)
else:
print time.strftime("%b%d", mytime)
Well, date/datetime objects are directly comparable:
import datetime
today_day = datetime.date.today()
other = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(your_timestamp)
if other.date() == today_day:
fmt = "%H:%M"
else:
fmt = "%b%d"
print other.strftime(fmt)
-tkc
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