On Monday, December 10, 2012 3:52:55 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:57:37 -0800, noydb wrote: > > > > > I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time > > > of a pdf file. I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before, > > > was advised to do it like: > > > > > > import datetime, os, stat > > > mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME] // the files modification > > > time > > > > What language are you writing? Using // for comments is not Python. > > > > > > > dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime) > > > > > > I am having problems with the comparison, that line is failing. > > > > You haven't shown us the comparison line. Would you like us to guess what > > it does? > > > > My guess is that you are doing this: > > > > if mtime is dtime: ... > > > > Am I close? > > > > If not, please forgive me, my crystal ball is often faulty. > > > > > > > I think > > > I may have figured out the issue -- I think it is a matter of the file's > > > time being 'aware' and the user-input date-time being 'naive'. > > > > "Aware" of what? > > > > > > > > -- > > Steven
Forgive me, I was just copying the code from the original reply to my orignal question. Forgive me for not posting the comparison line, it goes something like if one_time > another_time: Forgive me - the 'aware' time vs 'naive' time refers to documentation I found for the datetime module, see second sentence down http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
