On Sun, 8 May 2005 19:06:31 -0600, Stewart Midwinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After an hour of research, I'm more confused than ever. I don't know >if I should use the time module, or the eGenix datetime module. Here's >what I want to do: I want to calculate the time difference (in >seconds would be okay, or minutes), between two date-time strings. > >so: something like this: >time0 = "2005-05-06 23:03:44" >time1 = "2005-05-07 03:03:44" > >timedelta = someFunction(time0,time1) >print 'time difference is %s seconds' % timedelta. > >Which function should I use?
The builtin datetime module: >>> import datetime >>> x = datetime.datetime(2005, 5, 6, 23, 3, 44) >>> y = datetime.datetime(2005, 5, 8, 3, 3, 44) >>> x - y datetime.timedelta(-2, 72000) >>> y - x datetime.timedelta(1, 14400) >>> Parsing the time string is left as an exercise for the reader (hint: see the time module's strptime function). Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list