Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:42 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >> But this particular question is easy. > >> > >> What I have is a timestamp which reads: 1289410678L. > >> > > That's an integer. It looks like the timestamp is a whole number of > > seconds, so the number of milliseconds is 0. (I make it '2010-11-10 > > 17:37:58'.) > > Well it is this particular timestamp.
Which is what you presented as “what I have”. > But I have a lot of files to process and some do have a timestamp with > the milliseconds. So, if you want help with such timestamps, you'll need to present a real example (or preferably several exmaples) of timestamps that need this handling. > Right. > The question is: how to get the number of milliseconds out of > timestamp? From the timestamp you showed: The number of milliseconds is zero, since it's an integer. That datatype will *always* have zero milliseconds. > Once again: I can get the datetime object with the seconds precision > by dividing it on 1000. But that will produce the datetime object with > the seconds precision. Because that's the data you're showing us: A timestamp with an integer number of seconds. > I can actually produce another timestamp with the milliseconds from a > different file... Then you won't be able to represent it as an integer number of seconds. What are you receiving in the data? What data type is it? -- \ “He who allows oppression, shares the crime.” —Erasmus Darwin, | `\ grandfather of Charles Darwin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
