Newbie: datetime conversion question

[Fredrik Lundh]

"kevin evans" wrote:

> I'm trying to convert some code from Ruby to Python, specifically..
>
> timestamp = "%08x" % Time.now.to_i
>
> Make a hex version of the current timestamp. Any ideas how best to do
> this in python gratefully received..

that's perfectly valid Python code, provided Time is an object that has a "now"
property which in turn has a "to_i" property.

but assuming that you don't have such an object, you can do something like:

    timestamp = "%02x" % time.time()

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