Andy, Have you looked at the datetime data objects ? They allow for direct comparison and arithmetic operations.
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WorkingWithTime http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html Cheers, Robert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Ingham Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spacewalk-list] timestamps and the spacecmd API Hello all! I need to compare the "completed_date" from the listSystemEvents method (published at http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/1.9/handlers/SystemHandle r.html#listSystems ) to the current time (when my python script runs). The 'completed_date' is returned from the API in ISO8601 format, e.g.: 20131230T23:00:24 I'm grabbing the current timestamp via datetime.datetime.now(), which returns a format like: 2014-02-06 13:05:47.583122 Has anyone got python code that compares two timestamps for use with the spacewalk API? (Ultimately, I want to create a conditional that says, "if the event completed less than X hours ago, do Y") TIA! Andy Andy Ingham IT Infrastructure Fuqua School of Business Duke University _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
