Tom Tucker wrote:
> I found a temporary solution. The goal in the end was to compare two
> dates/times and retrieve the millisecond delta between the two.
>
> Work around
> #############
> import datetime
> import time
> t1 = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
> t2 = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,553)
> t1tuple = time.mktime(t1.timetuple())+(t1.microsecond/1000.)
> t2tuple = time.mktime(t2.timetuple())+(t2.microsecond/1000.)
> delta = (t2tuple - t1tuple) * 1000
> print delta
You could also subtract the datetimes directly to get a timedelta:
In [13]: t1 = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
In [14]: t2 = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,553)
In [15]: diff = t2-t1
In [16]: diff
Out[16]: datetime.timedelta(0, 0, 100)
In [17]: diff.microseconds
Out[17]: 100
or if the diff can be bigger use
((diff.days * 24*60*60) * diff.seconds) * 1000 + diff.microseconds
> On 7/4/06, Tom Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Below is an example of me converting a datetime to milliseconds on a
>> Mac running Pythong 2.3.5. The same working code on a Solaris system
>> with Python 2.3.2 fails. Any thoughts? What arguments am I missing?
>>
>>
>>
>> From my Mac
>> #############
>> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Oct 5 2005, 11:07:27)
>> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import datetime
>>>>> dtstr = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
>>>>> output = dtstr.strftime('%s.%%03d') % (dtstr.microsecond)
>>>>> print output
>> 115977805.453
I think you want '%S.%%03d' as the format string (uppercase S). %s is
not a standard format and it is probably handled differently on Mac OS
and Solaris. What is the result of dtstr.strftime('%s.%%03d') on each
machine? On Windows I get
In [11]: dtstr.strftime('%s.%%03d')
Out[11]: '.%03d'
Perhaps Solaris just passes the unknown format to output, that would
give the error you see.
Kent
>>
>>
>> From Work (Solaris)
>> ################
>> Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov 17 2003, 22:32:28)
>> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on sunos5
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import datetime
>>>>> dtstr = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
>>>>> output = dtstr.strftime('%s.%%03d') % (dtstr.microsecond)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
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