Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-08 Thread Wayne Watson
This sure was tricky business, but it's working. Thanks to all who participated. Now if I can my "tutor" posting problem squared away! Kent Johnson wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, maybe. Here's the file the change and result

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-08 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, maybe. Here's the file the change and results: > > # Using datetime to do date-time math on a file date-time stamp and > # the creating the new stamp > from datetime import datetime, timedelta > > Traceback (most recen

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Well, maybe. Here's the file the change and results: # Using datetime to do date-time math on a file date-time stamp and # the creating the new stamp from datetime import datetime, timedelta format = '%Y%m%d_%H%M%S' #d=datetime.strptime('20080321_113405', format) d = da

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread John Fouhy
2008/9/8 Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm sure you have the essence below, but I'm not familiar with the In/ Out > notation. Apparently, I need to scoop up the In lines into a file and add > some print stmts for the In[x] d lines. Kent uses IPython, which is an enhanced version of the stand

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Yep, I tried strptime and strftime but got stuck too often on something or other (mostly mixing time, datetime somehow), so simplified matters to make it clear what I was trying to do. I'm sure you have the essence below, but I'm not familiar with the In/ Out notation. Ap

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's as far as I can go with this. The last line of output asks the > question I need an answer for. > (Once again my direct post to tutor@python.org has failed to appear here > (sent 5:42 PDT), as before.) It arrived late

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread John Fouhy
2008/9/8 Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > def adjust_ftime(atime, sec): > # mmdd_hhmmss, seconds in, new mmdd_hhmmss out > ts = atime[1:-7] # use time stamp portion > ayear = int(ts[0:4]) > amonth = int(ts[4:6]) > aday= int(ts[6:8]) > ahour = int(ts[

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Here's as far as I can go with this. The last line of output asks the question I need an answer for. (Once again my direct post to tutor@python.org has failed to appear here (sent 5:42 PDT), as before.) # Using datetime to do date-time math on a file date-time stamp and #

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Yes, my posting has become rather odd in that I don't see my own posts, except for the first one. It seems to have started about a week ago.  I asked the owner about that and haven't gotten a reply yet. I hit Reply, Reply to Sender or Reply to All on this message, I only s

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread greg whittier
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Yes, cut and paste directly from the code. Positively a import as seen. > Here's the full set of code: > > # The effect of adding seconds to date-time to see if day gets changed > import datetime > dt1 = datetime.datetime(20

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:17 PM, greg whittier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> # program to test str... functions >> import datetime > > Are you sure you didn't do "from datetime import datetime"? or "import time" ? >> ... >> # format conversion of date+time >> dt1 = datetime.strptime("20080421_101

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread greg whittier
Is this an actual cut and paste of your code? The problem seems to be that you're getting a time.struct_time object instead of a datetime object. See below On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Yes, that's correct., but that reference isn't doing it for me p

Re: [Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread greg whittier
I'm not clear on exactly what you're looking to do, but I think you want the strftime and strptime methods. See http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-datetime.html On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've been writing various functions with datetime to change

[Tutor] Formating from hhmms to hh:mm:ss

2008-09-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html I've been writing various functions with datetime to change date-time formats from one to another. For example, my file names have a time stamp of mmdd_hhmmss in their names. When I need to convert, say, time by adding seconds to the hhmmss part of the file name, I hav