The program works great! It does everything I wanted it to do and now
I'm already thinking about ways of making it more useful like emailing
me the results of my program.
Thanks everyone for the help and advice.
Colin
Tim Chase wrote:
> > I kept getting a Python error for the following line:
> >
> I kept getting a Python error for the following line:
>
> month = m[webMonth]
>
> I changed it to month = month_numbers[webMonth]
>
> and that did the trick.
Sorry for the confusion. Often when I'm testing these things,
I'll be lazy and create an alias to save me the typing. In this
case,
I kept getting a Python error for the following line:
month = m[webMonth]
I changed it to month = month_numbers[webMonth]
and that did the trick.
Tim Chase wrote:
> > I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying to
> > compare a date I found on a website to todays date.
> I will try to work through Tim's response. I tried using it
> yesterday but I was really confused on what I was doing.
I'll put my plug in for entering the code directly at the shell
prompt while you're trying to grok new code or toy with an idea.
It makes it much easier to see what is going
Thanks for the reply, the book I'm actually using is Python Programming
for the absolute beginner. The book has been good to pick up basic
things but it doesn't cover time or dates as far as I can tell. As for
previous programming experience, I have had some lite introductions to
C & C++ about 6 ye
On 17/06/2006 9:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So when I grab the date of the website, that date is actually a string?
Yes. Anything you grab off a website (or read from a file) will be held
in a string. Typically you would then need to convert it (or parts of
it) to some other type(s) e.g. i
So when I grab the date of the website, that date is actually a string?
How would I got about converting that to a date?
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On 16/06/2006 11:23 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying
>> to compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I
>> have is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
>> Example: Jun
Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you need to map the month-strings back into actual dates, you
> can use this dictionary:
>
> >>> month_numbers = dict([(date(2006, m, 1).strftime("%b"), m)
> for m in range(1,13)])
Or you can just use the same format codes to specify that
time.strpti
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying
> > to compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I
> > have is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
> > Example: Jun 1
> I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying to
> compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I have
> is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
> Example: Jun 15
No year, right? Are you making the assumption that the year is
the curr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying
> to compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I
> have is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
> Example: Jun 15
The 'datetime' module in the standard library
I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying to
compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I have
is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
Example: Jun 15
How would I go about comparing that to a different date? The purpose of
my progra
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