On Monday, October 29, 2012 11:11:55 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 10:13 PM, noydb wrote:
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> > I guess I get there eventually!
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> > This seems to work
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> > pdf_timeStamp =
> > time.strftime("%m%d%y%H%M%S",time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(pdf)))
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> > intermediateTime = time.strptime(pdf_timeStamp, "%m%d%y%H%M%S")
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> > pdfFile_compareTime = time.mktime(intermediateTime)
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> > (and I'll do the same to the user entered date-n-time and then compare)
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> > Lastly, so can anyone chime in and tell me if this is a good method or not?
> > Is there a better way?
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> Please read the rest of the thread in particular the message 3 hours ago
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> from Gary Herron
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> import datetime, os, stat
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> mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME] // the files
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> modification time
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> dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime)
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> Now you can compare two datetimes simply by
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> if dt1 < dt2:
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> Or you can subtract them, and examine the difference.
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> What's the need for all that string conversion stuff?
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> DaveA
okay, I see.
But for the user supplied date... I'm not sure of the format just yet...
testing with a string for now (actual date-date might be possible, tbd later),
so like '10292012213000' (oct 29, 2012 9:30pm). How would you get that input
into a format to compare with dt above?
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