2013/1/2 Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I'm using pysvn to checkout a specific revision based on date - pysvn will > only accept a date in terms of seconds since the epoch. > > I'm attempting to use time.mktime() to convert a date (e.g. "2012-02-01) to > seconds since epoch. > > According to the docs, mktime expects a 9-element tuple. > > My question is, how should I omit elements from this tuple? And what is the > expected behaviour when I do that? > > For example, (zero-index), element 6 is the day of the week, and element 7 is > the day in the year, out of 366 - if I specify the earlier elements, then I > shouldn't really need to specify these. > > However, the docs don't seem to talk much about this. > > I just tried testing putting garbage numbers for element 6 and 7, whilst > specifying the earlier elements: > >> time.mktime((2012, 5, 5, 23, 59, 59, 23424234, 5234234 ,0 )) > > It seems to have no effect what numbers I set 6 and 7 to - is that because > the earlier elements are set? > > How should I properly omit them? Is this all documented somewhere? What is > the minimum I need to specify? And what happens to the fields I don't specify? > > Cheers, > Victor > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Hi, if you initially have the time information as string, you might use time.strptime(...) to extract this based on the supplied format; the output of this function is usable as input for mktime, the remaining fields are presumably handled consistently. see: http://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html#time.strftime >>> time.strptime("2012-3-17", "%Y-%m-%d") time.struct_time(tm_year=2012, tm_mon=3, tm_mday=17, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=77, tm_isdst=-1) >>> time.mktime(time.strptime("2012-3-17", "%Y-%m-%d")) 1331938800.0 >>> hth, vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
