Here's an improvement in case you want your code to work outside of Arizona:
from time import time, timezone h = ((time() - timezone) / 3600) % 24 On Jan 10, 9:04 pm, Austyn <aus...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about: > > import time > arizona_utc_offset = -7.00 > h = (time.time() / 3600 + arizona_utc_offset) % 24 > > dt.timetuple()[6] is the day of the week; struct tm_time doesn't > include a sub-second field. > > On Jan 10, 10:28 am, "W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > > > > > Maybe there's a more elegant way to do this. I want to express the > > result of datetime.datetime.now() in fractional hours. > > > Here's one way. > > > dt=datetime.datetime.now() > > xtup = dt.timetuple() > > h = xtup[3]+xtup[4]/60.0+xtup[5]/3600.00+xtup[6]/10**6 > > # now is in fractions of an hour -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list