Newbie question, list comprehension

[Hans Nowak]

Johannes Bauer wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> I'm currently doing something like this:
> 
> import time
> localtime = time.localtime(1234567890)
> fmttime = "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % (localtime[0], localtime[1], 
> localtime[2], localtime[3], localtime[4], localtime[5])
> print fmttime
> 
> For the third line there is, I suppose, some awesome python magic I 
> could use with list comprehensions. I tried:
> 
> fmttime = "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % ([localtime[i] for i in 
> range(0, 5)])

The % operator here wants a tuple with six arguments that are integers, not a 
list.  Try:

     fmttime = "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % tuple(localtime[i] for i in 
range(6))

> As it appearently passed the while list [2009, 02, 14, 0, 31, 30] as the 
> first parameter which is supposed to be substituted by "%04d". Is there 
> some other way of doing it?

In this case, you can just use a slice, as localtime is a tuple:

     fmttime = "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % localtime[:6]

Hope this helps! ^_^

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