Den tisdagen den 12:e november 2013 kl. 23:50:03 UTC+1 skrev Denis McMahon:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:04:08 -0800, edmundicon wrote:
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> > Greetings everyone! This is my first post on this forum :)
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> > TL;DR: I want to convert the gregorian years into Chinese years, and
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> > deal with the fact that the Chinese new years are different each
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> > gregorian year. If I manage to do that, I'll know which year the user is
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> > born in Chinese years and can then give him a personal description based
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> > upon that year!
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> > I started to learn Python programming language 2 months ago (noob), but
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> > I like it and I feel like if I keep learning I might become a great
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> > programmer one day!
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> > I recently started a small Python project in which my mission is to give
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> > a personal description to a user based upon the year he / she is born in
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> > the Chinese Zodiac and I have run into some trouble. For instance, if
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> > someone is born on the 15'th January 1990, he is actually born 1989
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> > because the Chinese new year occurred on the 27:th January that year.
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> > I have a text file which shows when the Chinese new years in gregorian
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> > years (normal years), starting from 1900-01-31 to 2007-02-18. It goes
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> > 1900-1-31 1901-2-19 1902-2-08 1903-1-29 1904-2-16 1905-2-04 1906-1-25
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> > ...(and so on)
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> > 2007-02-18 ( I can't see the logic behind this really)
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> > The Chinese calendar is divided into cycles of 60 years each, and each
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> > year has a combination of an animal and an element. There are 12 animals
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> > and 5 elements, the animals changes each year, and the elements every
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> > other year. The current cycle was initiated in the year of 1984 which
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> > was the year of the Wood Rat. The personal descriptions for each
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> > combination has conveniently also been provided in text files.
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> > The animals are in this order:
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> > Rat Ox Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Sheep Monkey Rooster Dog Boar
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> > And the elements are:
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> > Wood Fire Earth Metal Water
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> > I have already created a modulus method which takes the input year (the
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> > gregorian year you were born) and gives you an element and an animal,
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> > for example if you type "1990" you are given Metal Horse. The problem I
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> > now have is to convert the gregorian years into Chinese years, and deal
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> > with the fact that the Chinese new years are different each gregorian
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> > year. If I manage to do that, I'll know which year the user is born in
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> > Chinese years and can then give him a personal description based upon
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> > that year!
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> > Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Have a nice day :)
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> Here is one suggestion
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> Write a function to convert a gregorian date into the number of days
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> since 1st January 1900 (we'll call 1st january 1900 your epoch). You will
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> need to take leap years into account.
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> Convert the users date of birth using this function.
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> Convert your chinese new year dates using this function.
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> You now have the simple task of comparing the users date of birth as
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> daynumber_since_epoch with the start date of each chinese year as
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> daynumber_since_epoch.
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> You may wish to create a list of tuples where each tuple has start_day,
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> end_day, year_name:
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> years = [(0,30,"stone pig"),(31,414,"stone weasel") ... ]
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> You should be able to automate creating this list.
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> You could then search through the list of tuples with a function such as:
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> yearname( birthdate ):
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> foreach thing in years
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> if birthdate is in the range specified by the thing
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> return the yearname from the thing
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> return "constipated program"
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> (this is obviously not written as python code, you have to do that bit
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> Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com
Sir, I am really happy that you answered, but could you *please* elaborate /
give more great advice on how to write the function which converts your
gregorian date into a Chinese year?
Should I do it like t
