"David Rock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 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)'
Why? Why not just put it in a Python script? I'm missing something I think. Alan G. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor