On Aug 16, 9:46 am, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As well as the other replies, this also works (as far as I can tell!): > > import time > today = time.localtime() > yesterday = today[ : 2] + (today[2] - 1, ) + today[3 : ] > yesterday = time.localtime(time.mktime(yesterday))
This is something I have wondered about. The C library mktime function is documented to fix up out of range values,. For example July 32 becomes August 1 and August -1 becomes July 31. Python presumably inherits this very useful (and seemingly not well known) behavior, but it is not documented. Is this just an oversight, or is it intentional on the grounds that it might be platform-dependent? Any language lawyers out there that would care to comment? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
