problem with strptime and time zone

2010-08-24 Thread m_ahlenius
Hi, perhaps I missed this posted already somewhere. I am got a program which reads time stings from some devices which are providing the time zones. I have to take this into account when doing some epoch time calculations. When I run the following code with the time zone string set to 'GMT'

Re: problem with strptime and time zone

2010-08-24 Thread m_ahlenius
On Aug 24, 4:16 pm, Alex Willmer a...@moreati.org.uk wrote: On Aug 24, 9:45 pm, m_ahlenius ahleni...@gmail.com wrote: whereas this fails: myStrA = 'Sun Aug 22 19:03:06 PDT' gTimeA = strptime( myStrA, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z') print gTimeA = ,gTimeA ValueError: time data 'Sun Aug 22 19

Re: Problem with tarfile module to open *.tar.gz files - unreliable ?

2010-08-20 Thread m_ahlenius
On Aug 20, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to doing serious work in python.  I am using it to access a large number of log files.  Some of the logs get corrupted and I need to detect that when processing them.  This code seems to work

Re: Problem with tarfile module to open *.tar.gz files - unreliable ?

2010-08-20 Thread m_ahlenius
On Aug 20, 6:57 am, m_ahlenius ahleni...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 20, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to doing serious work in python.  I am using it to access a large number of log files.  Some of the logs get corrupted and I

Re: Problem with tarfile module to open *.tar.gz files - unreliable ?

2010-08-20 Thread m_ahlenius
On Aug 20, 9:10 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: On Aug 20, 6:57 am, m_ahlenius ahleni...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 20, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to doing serious work in python.  I am using it to access

Re: Problem with tarfile module to open *.tar.gz files - unreliable ?

2010-08-20 Thread m_ahlenius
On Aug 20, 9:25 am, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: On Aug 20, 6:57 am, m_ahlenius ahleni...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 20, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to doing serious work in python.  I am using

Re: Problem with tarfile module to open *.tar.gz files - unreliable ?

2010-08-20 Thread m_ahlenius
On Aug 20, 12:55 pm, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: m_ahlenius wrote: I am using Python 2.6.5. Unfortunately I don't have other versions installed so its hard to test with a different version. As for the log compression, its a bit hard to test.  Right now I may process 100

Problem with tarfile module to open *.tar.gz files - unreliable ?

2010-08-19 Thread m_ahlenius
Hi, I am relatively new to doing serious work in python. I am using it to access a large number of log files. Some of the logs get corrupted and I need to detect that when processing them. This code seems to work for quite a few of the logs (all same structure) It also correctly identifies

question on storing dates in a tuple

2010-02-10 Thread m_ahlenius
Hi, I have a weird question about tuples. I am getting some dates from a mysql db, using the mysqldb interface. I am doing a standard query with several of the fields are datetime format in mysql. When I retrieve and print them in python, they look fine. eg. storeddate = 2010-02-07 12:03:41

question on using tarfile to read a *.tar.gzip file

2010-02-07 Thread m_ahlenius
Hi, I have a number of relatively large number *tar.gzip files to process. With the py module tarfile, I see that I can access and extract them, one at a time to a temporary dir, but that of course takes time. All that I need to do is to read the first and last lines of each file and then move

Re: question on using tarfile to read a *.tar.gzip file

2010-02-07 Thread m_ahlenius
On Feb 7, 5:01 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: Is there a way to do this, without decompressing each file to a temp dir?  Like is there a method using some tarfile interface adapter to read a compressed file?  Otherwise I'll just access each file, extract it,  grab the