Creating a timedelta counter...

[Wil Schultz]

Thanks, after much pounding I got it worked out... somewhat anyway! ;)

Wil
my 2¢

"When everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked 
something."


Adonis wrote:
> "Wil Schultz" <news at rekon.NOSPAM.org> wrote in message
> news:10fp2gpt3usdk7d at corp.supernews.com...
> 
>>Hey all,
>>Sorry, I am trying my best to learn python and seem to be able to grab
>>somethings while others seem to escape me...
>>
>>I am trying to write a timedelta meter, i.e. "it has been U years, V
>>months, W day's, X hours, Y minutes, Z seconds since SomePoint"
>>
>>Here's what I have so far, I can print the current time/date but am
>>having issues figuring out how to timedelat it...
>>
>>____________________________________________________
>># dunno about this
>>from datetime import datetime, timedelta
>>
>># This works, will print date/time
>>
>>from time import gmtime, strftime
>>strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())
>>
>>
>># sometime
>>myYear          = "2004"
>>myMonth         = "7"
>>myDay           = "8"
>>myHour          = "6"
>>myMinute        = "21"
>>mySecond        = "13"
>>-----------------------------------------------------
>>
>>-- 
>>Wil
>>my 2¢
>>
>>"When everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
>>something."
> 
> 
> Check out the datemtime module, in particular the timedelta class.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-datetime.html
> 
> Adonis
> 
>