Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread noydb
> > > > > > > > http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime > > """ An object of type *time* or *datetime* may be naive or *aware" > > > > aware refers to time-zone and daylight savings time, such political > > ephemerals. Two times can only be changed if one knows they're both in > > the

Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/10/2012 03:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:57:37 -0800, noydb wrote: > >> I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time >> of a pdf file. I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before, >> was advised to do it like: >> >> import date

Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread noydb
On Monday, December 10, 2012 3:52:55 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:57:37 -0800, noydb wrote: > > > > > I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time > > > of a pdf file. I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before, > > > was a

Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:57:37 -0800, noydb wrote: > I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time > of a pdf file. I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before, > was advised to do it like: > > import datetime, os, stat > mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MT

Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread noydb
Found this, and it solved my problem http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rprasad/2011/09/21/python-string-to-a-datetime-object/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread John Gordon
In <21eb3e6f-9a82-47aa-93ff-8f4083d18...@googlegroups.com> noydb writes: > I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time of > a pdf file. I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before, was > advised to do it like: > import datetime, os, stat > mtime = os.ls

date-time comparison, aware vs naive

2012-12-10 Thread noydb
I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time of a pdf file. I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before, was advised to do it like: import datetime, os, stat mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME] // the files modification time dt = datetime.dateti