I am using python 2.6.2, I haven't updated to 3.0 yet. No I have no class
or instructor, I am learning this myself. I have Hetlands book "Beginning
Python Novice to Professional and online documentation books so Dive into
Python, python.org etc.
Using the SPE editor.
I have currently only fully written basic psuedocode to give me a basic
framework to guide myself.
#Basic pseudocode
#Purpose to get raw input and calculate a score for a field of options and
return that
#score in a set in descending order.
#Multiple sets sould be written to the doc
#Obtain date
#Check if txt file with same date exists. If yes apphend to results to file.
#Obtain location
#Set Dictionary
#Event number
#Obtain set size
#Prompt first entry
#First Entry Number
#First Entry Name
#Set Blocks to obtain and calculate data
#Block 1 example - Placings Block
#Obtain number of events competed in
#Obtain how many times finished first
#Ensure this value is not greater than Number of Events
#Number of Firsts divide by Events * total by 15.
#Obtain Second finishes
#Ensure this value is not greater than Number of Events
#Number of Seconds divide by Events * total by 10.
#Continue On with this
#Block 2 - Lookup coach Dict and apply value.
#Obtain Surname of Coach
#Lookup Coach File and Match Name and get value.
#Blocks continue gaining and calculating values.
#create txt file named using date
#Sum Values Block1 + Block2 etc
#Print to file event number and field with name number individual Block
totals and Sum Total
#Arranged in descending Sum Total.
#Prompt are there any more events? Yes return to start
#Apphend all additional events to same day file seperated by blank line.
On Sep 24, 2009 9:59pm, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote:
flebber wrote:
Sorry to ask a simple question but I am a little confused how to
combine the input function and the date time module.
Simply at the start of the program I want to prompt the user to enter
the date, desirably in the format dd/mm/year.
However I want to make sure that python understands the time format
because first the date will form part of the name of the output file
so dd/mm/year as 1st September 2009, secondly if I have multiple
output files saved in a directory I may need to search later on the
files and contents of files by date range. So can I timestamp the
file?
I know this is a simple question but it eludes me exactly how to do
it.
I have the basics from http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html
from datetime import date
date = input("type date dd/mm/year: ")
datetime(day,month,year)
# some program blocks
#print to file(name = date) or apphend if it exists
What version of python is your class, instructor, and text book using? If
you want to learn fastest, you probably need to be using the same, or
nearly same environment. The input() function is one place where it
matters whether it's Python 2.x or Python 3.x. While you're at it, you
should give the rest of your environment, such as which OS.
The doc page you pointed us to is for Python 2.6.2, but the input
function on that version returns an integer. Perhaps you want
raw_input() ?
What code have you written, and what about it doesn't work? Have you
added print statements before the line that causes the error to see what
the intermediate values are?
To try to anticipate some of your problems, you should realize that in
most file systems, the slash is a reserved character, so you can't write
the date that way. I'd suggest using dashes. I put dates in directory
names, and I always put year, then month, then day, because then sorting
the filenames also sorts the dates. I'm not in a country that sorts dates
that way, but it does make things easier. So directories for the last few
days would be:
2009-09-22
2009-09-23
2009-09-24
When asking the user for a date, or telling him a date, by all means use
your country's preferred format, as you say.
You mention timestamping the file. While that can be done (Unix touch,
for example), I consider it a last resort for keeping track of useful
information. At best, it should be an extra "reminder" of something
that's already in the file contents. And since many programs make the
assumption that if the timestamp doesn't change, the contents haven't
changed, you can only reasonably do this on a file whose contents are
fixed when first created.
If you control the internal format of the file, put the date there,
perhaps right after the header which defines the data type and version.
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