W. eWatson wrote: > Maybe there's a more elegant way to do this. I want to express the > result of datetime.datetime.now() in fractional hours. > > Here's one way. > > dt=datetime.datetime.now() > xtup = dt.timetuple() > h = xtup[3]+xtup[4]/60.0+xtup[5]/3600.00+xtup[6]/10**6 > # now is in fractions of an hour
Here's how you'd do that with mxDateTime: >>> from mx.DateTime import now >>> now().abstime / 3600.0 13.17341068830755 .abstime gives you the time in fractional seconds. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/ -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 11 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
