"GMane Python" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there is an existing function that would let me > determine the difference in time. To explain: > > Upon starting a program: > > startup = time.time() > > After some very long processing: > now = time.time() > > print <days> <hours> <minutes> <seconds>, now - startup > > So, to print in a formatted way (D-H-M-S) the difference in time of startup > and now.
now - startup gives you the difference in seconds; turning that into (days, hours, minutes, seconds) isn't that hard (hint: lookup the divmod function in the manual). or you could use the datetime module: >>> from datetime import datetime >>> startup = datetime.today() >>> now = datetime.today() >>> print now - startup 0:00:06.625000 (see the library reference for details). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
