Please take a look at the documentation for the datetime and time modules :-)
>>> import datetime >>> datetime.datetime.strptime('2008-09-16 08:01:16', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') -- Horst On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Bobby Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 1:35 pm, "Horst Gutmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you convert timea into a normal datetime instance just substract >> timea from timeb and you will get a datetime.timedelta instance which >> has everything you need :-) >> >> import datetime >> a = datetime.datetime(2008, 11, 15) >> b = datetime.datetime.now() >> >> print b-a >> >> -- Horst > > > > Well I need to know the exact # of seconds from 2008-09-16 08:01:16 > to now.... not from just a date to date. It has to be exact... does > this make sense. I was looking at this page > http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html in the > "Converting DMYHMS to Epoch Seconds" section. I thought perhaps it > would be easier to just get the epoch seconds between this time, and > NOW() and subtract the two, however I keep getting an error locally in > my terminal window reading: > >>>> import time >>>> import datetime >>>> t=datetime.datetime('2008-09-16 08:01:16') > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: function takes at least 3 arguments (1 given) > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---