You are fairly close >>> t1 = today() >>> t1 <DateTime object for '2005-09-22 00:00:00.00' at 11656e0> >>> t2 = today() + RelativeDateTime(hours=20) >>> t2 <DateTime object for '2005-09-22 20:00:00.00' at 1165760> >>> t3 = t2 - t1 >>> t3.hours 20.0 >>> slice = t3/20 >>> slice <DateTimeDelta object for '01:00:00.00' at 116cc50>
t3 is a "Delta" - that is an abstract representation of time - it is not the 20 hours since midnight, just 20 hours at any time in the universe. slice is just 1/20th of that same abstract time. But because of the munificence of Marc we can add that abstract hour to a real fixed time (ignoring Einstein of course) >>> t1 + slice <DateTime object for '2005-09-22 01:00:00.00' at 11655e0> And so that is a "real" datetime 1/20th of the way forward from t1 so a simple loop will get you your 20 evenly spaced time periods, which is what i think you were asking for. cheers On 9/22/05, nephish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > i use mx.DateTime.RelativeDateTimeDiff to get the difference between > date_x and date_y. > what i need to do divide this amount of time into 20 different times > that spaced out between the date_x and the date_y. > > so if the difference between date_x and date_y is 20 hours, i need 20 > DateTimes that are one hour apart from each other. If the difference is > 40 minutes, i need the 20 DateTimes to be spaced out 2 minutes from each > other.. > > what would be a way to pull this off? i have looked at the docs for > mxDateTime > http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html > and there seems to be a divide operation, but i dont quite know what it > is talking about > with the deltas. > > anyone have a good start point? > > thanks > shawn > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- -------------------------- Paul Brian m. 07875 074 534 t. 0208 352 1741 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
