Ross wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: >> Ross wrote: >>> There seems to be no shortage of information around on how to use the >>> time module, for example to use time.ctime() and push it into >>> strftime and get something nice out the other side, but I haven't >>> found anything helpful in going the other way. >> >> As to a paucity of conversion formatting, there is no magic way to take >> everyone's way of putting date and time information in text and convert >> it to unambiguous format, in part because there are too many different >> and contradictory formats. When I write dates, I know what I intended; >> when I read dates, I guess what the author intended. >> >> Have you read the entire time module document? If so, which functions >> in that module take strings as arguments? >> >>> That is, given some formatted text describing times - is there >>> something that makes it easy to calculate time differences, or do I >>> have to index my way through the string pulling out characters, >>> converting to integers etc... >>> >>> Data is formatted: >>> t1 = 09:12:10 >>> t2 = 11:22:14 >>> I want to calculate tdiff = t2-t1 >> >> Do you do any work yourself? Show us your attempts. This looks like >> a trivial exercise. It seems that for less than four times the effort >> of asking your question you might have found the answer. >> >> Perhaps I am being too cranky this morning. > > Jeeze, you're quite an ass aren't you?
And how did sending this message improve things? Let's keep it civil, guys. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list