On 2 Jan 2013, at 08:01, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using pysvn to checkout a specific revision based on date - pysvn will > only accept a date in terms of seconds since the epoch. > > I'm attempting to use time.mktime() to convert a date (e.g. "2012-02-01) to > seconds since epoch. > > According to the docs, mktime expects a 9-element tuple. > > My question is, how should I omit elements from this tuple? And what is the > expected behaviour when I do that? > > For example, (zero-index), element 6 is the day of the week, and element 7 is > the day in the year, out of 366 - if I specify the earlier elements, then I > shouldn't really need to specify these. > > However, the docs don't seem to talk much about this. > > I just tried testing putting garbage numbers for element 6 and 7, whilst > specifying the earlier elements: > >> time.mktime((2012, 5, 5, 23, 59, 59, 23424234, 5234234 ,0 )) > > It seems to have no effect what numbers I set 6 and 7 to - is that because > the earlier elements are set?
> > How should I properly omit them? Is this all documented somewhere? What is > the minimum I need to specify? And what happens to the fields I don't specify? See the python docs the tuple is fully documented. 6 and 7 are not needed to figure out the seconds so are ignored. Did you notice the parse_datetime.py that is in the pysvn Client Example? Its a rather over the top date and time parser I wrote a long long time ago. (Which is missing some imports, hmm I cannot have tested this for a long time). It can parse things like "yesterday 10:34". Barry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
