[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've noticed that there's a few functions that return what appears to >be a tuple, but that also has attributes for each item in the tuple. >For example, time.localtime() returns a time.time_struct, which looks >like a tuple but also like a struct. That is, I can do: > >>>> time.localtime() >(2006, 1, 18, 21, 15, 11, 2, 18, 0) >>>> time.localtime()[3] >21 >>>> time.localtime().tm_hour >21
Ah, but it ISN'T really a tuple: >>> import time >>> t = time.localtime() >>> type(t) <type 'time.struct_time'> >>> str(t) '(2006, 1, 21, 22, 49, 32, 5, 21, 0)' It's a class object. The __repr__ method returns a string that LOOKS the same as a tuple. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
