* Chris Lasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-15 22:07]: > Haha! I'll relay that message! Thanks Kent and Glenn! >
Here is one I actually use in real life. I needed something to figure out what the previous year, month, etc for rolling up old log files. The best thing I could think of for date calculation was datetime. This is embedded inside a shell script. python -c ' import time import datetime dtup_now = time.localtime() y,m,d = dtup_now[:3] d_today = datetime.datetime(y,m,d) d_delta = datetime.timedelta(d_today.day) last_month = d_today - d_delta d_delta = datetime.timedelta(last_month.day) two_month = last_month - datetime.timedelta(last_month.day) d_delta = datetime.timedelta(two_month.day) del_month = two_month - datetime.timedelta(two_month.day) print "%d %02d %d%02d" % (last_month.year, last_month.month, del_month.year, del_month.month)' What you will notice is it gets complicated in a hurry if you try to do loops or anything fancy because of formatting constraints. Not that it can't be done, but it would hurt to try. :-) -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
