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 for some reason. You can do what you want much more simply using datetime.strptime() and strftime(): In [2]: from datetime import datetime, timedelta In [3]: format = '%Y%m%d_%H%M%S' In [8]: d=datetime.strptime('20080321_113405', format) In [10]: d Out[10]: datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 21, 11, 34, 5) In [13]: d += timedelta(seconds=200) In [14]: d Out[14]: datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 21, 11, 37, 25) In [15]: d.strftime(format) Out[15]: '20080321_113725' Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor