about time

[Byron Morgan]

Thanks to you both:

Peter was correct: I had missed the fact that time.time is a float, because
I kept studying the format examples.

David's format trick is nearly 100% faster than the hack I had devised, so
this is what I'll use.

Byron Morgan

"David Bolen" <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote in message
news:uu1dqvztt.fsf at fitlinxx.com...
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
>
> > Byron Morgan wrote:
> > >
> > > The time.py module seems to have no straightforward method to produce
a time
> > > display with seconds expressed in floating point precision, even
though
> > > clock() will produce microseconds. Am I missing something in the docs?
> >
> > This is unclear to me.  time.time() returns a float, with the fractional
> > part representing a fraction of a second, therefore certainly something
> > that could be called "floating point precision" (whatever that means).
> > What about it don't you like?
>
> I read it as the problem being the "produce a time display" portion
> and not the underlying value itself.  So time.time() returns a float,
> but none of time.ctime, time.asctime or time.strftime supply simple
> ways to get the additional precision as part of a display string.
>
> But to the original poster, there's nothing stopping you from
> including the extra precision in any output by directly using the time
> value you have, just by using the time value to compute the display.
> If you need the information embedded as part of a larger string value,
> your best bet is probably to dynamically build up a format string for
> time.strftime which includes the necessary microseconds as a literal
> part of the string, separately from the strftime call.
>
> For example:
>
>     >>> t = time.time()
>     >>> t
>     1048697222.525
>     >>> time.ctime(t)
>     'Wed Mar 26 11:47:02 2003'
>     >>> format = '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S' + '.%03d' % (t%1 * 1000)
>     >>> format
>     '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.524'
>     >>> time.strftime(format,time.localtime(t))
>     '03/26/2003 11:47:02.524'
>
>
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> -- David
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