Chris> I'm trying to read a file containing timestamps with milliseconds
Chris> ("2006/3/18 8:20:34.050").... When I try to parse I get an error
Chris> about the trailing ".050".
Chris> How should I approach this?
Here's the bad hack I use...
def timeparse(t, format):
"""Parse a time string that might contain fractions of a second.
Fractional seconds are supported using a fragile, miserable hack.
Given a time string like '02:03:04.234234' and a format string of
'%H:%M:%S', time.strptime() will raise a ValueError with this
message: 'unconverted data remains: .234234'. If %S is in the
format string and the ValueError matches as above, a datetime
object will be created from the part that matches and the
microseconds in the time string.
"""
try:
return datetime.datetime(*time.strptime(t, format)[0:6]).time()
except ValueError, msg:
if "%S" in format:
msg = str(msg)
mat = re.match(r"unconverted data remains:"
" \.([0-9]{1,6})$", msg)
if mat is not None:
# fractional seconds are present - this is the style
# used by datetime's isoformat() method
frac = "." + mat.group(1)
t = t[:-len(frac)]
t = datetime.datetime(*time.strptime(t, format)[0:6])
microsecond = int(float(frac)*1e6)
return t.replace(microsecond=microsecond)
else:
mat = re.match(r"unconverted data remains:"
" \,([0-9]{3,3})$", msg)
if mat is not None:
# fractional seconds are present - this is the style
# used by the logging module
frac = "." + mat.group(1)
t = t[:-len(frac)]
t = datetime.datetime(*time.strptime(t, format)[0:6])
microsecond = int(float(frac)*1e6)
return t.replace(microsecond=microsecond)
raise
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