In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from anything import * > > is bad form for any module unless (like Tkinter, for example) it's been Ah, I see. Thank you. Is there any reference, or way for me to determine whether something can/should be imported in this manner? As a newbie, looking for this information is sorta tough. I only used from mx import * because i found a reference to doing it this way elsewhere on the web. I also use from stat import * to get at the ST_CTIME constant. Is that a module that supports this, or is there a better way? > >>> import mx.DateTime as dt > >>> dt.today() > <DateTime object for '2004-12-20 00:00:00.00' at a0d85e0> Awesome! Thanks, that's what I needed. > Well, the help system actually imports the subpackages that live in the > mx space when you ask for help about them. So that's why doing that > allows you to resolve those names. Makes sense. > It's just a matter of using the packages in the intended way. Thanks! I tried to look on the egenix website for usage info, but it just had API info. The odd thing is that Egenix has an EXAMPLES link on their page. If you scroll down and look at the actual code examples, you'll see that it starts out FROM blah IMPORT *. So, you can understand why I did it that way. I prolly didn't do it deep enough (stopped at mx instead of mx.blah). > Well the first thing to try would be dropping it into /usr/lib/python2.2 > and seeing if you can import it without errors. You might actually find > that the built-in "time" module contains enough date/time functionality > for your needs if they are simple. My needs are pretty simple. Maybe you can point me in the right direction. I need to compare the creation time of a file with a date, and determine if I need to delete it. I know how to use stat to get the file creation time. I can get the current time. If I subtract the file ctime from the current time, how do i turn that delta into days? Thanks for all your help! Eric -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
