Thank you so much Kent That's exactly what I was lookin for
Regards Alberto <html><div><IMG height=12 src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emvamp.gif"; width=12> Gaucho</div></html> >From: Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with time module >Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:56:17 -0400 > >Alberto Troiano wrote: > > I have two strings like this > > > > hour1="14:30" > > hour2="15:30" > > > > I want to compare them like this: > > > > if local_time between hour1 and hour2: > > print True > > else > > print False > > > > Can anyone tell me how to make that comparison to work??????? (I don't >know > > how to take only the time in this format(Hour:Minutes)) > >time.strptime() can parse the time string to a time tuple, then you can >pull out a tuple of (hours, >minutes) and compare. > > >>> import time > >>> time.strptime('10:23', '%H:%M') >(1900, 1, 1, 10, 23, 0, 0, 1, -1) > >Here is a helper function that extracts (hours, minutes) from a provided >string, or from the clock >time if no string is given: > > >>> def getHoursMinutes(ts=None): > ... if ts: > ... t = time.strptime(ts, '%H:%M') > ... else: > ... t = time.localtime() > ... return (t.tm_hour, t.tm_min) > ... > >>> getHoursMinutes() >(9, 52) > >>> getHoursMinutes('8:34') >(8, 34) > >>> hour1="14:30" > >>> hour2="15:30" > >>> getHoursMinutes(hour1) >(14, 30) > >The values returned from getHoursMinutes() can be compared directly: > > >>> getHoursMinutes(hour1) <= getHoursMinutes() <= >getHoursMinutes(hour2) >False > >>> hour1='8:56' > >>> getHoursMinutes(hour1) <= getHoursMinutes() <= >getHoursMinutes(hour2) >True > >Kent > >_______________________________________________ >Tutor maillist - [email protected] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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