Thanks. I fetch data from social networking sites and want to mark the time of access. I store all the information in a redis database, which converts everything into strings and I need to convert those strings back to original python objects when analyzing the data.
Best Regards On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 12:22:44 PM UTC+8, alex23 wrote: > On Nov 6, 1:32 pm, Wincent <ronggui.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, I would like to convert tstr to representation > > > of time, but encounter the following error. Is there a > > > simple way to get what I want? Thanks. > > > > > > >>> import time > > > >>> tstr = str(time.localtime()) > > > >>> eval(tstr) > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > > > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > > > TypeError: structseq() takes at most 2 arguments (9 given)>>> sys.version > > > > The problem is that the repr of `time.struct_time` isn't its > > constructor, so you won't be able to do this without parsing the > > string, I believe. > > > > What are you trying to achieve here? You already have a > > time.struct_time object, why turn it into a string if what you want is > > the object? > > > > If you're wanting to pass time values around as strings, maybe > > `time.strptime` will be more useful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list