date-time comparison, aware vs naive

[noydb]

On Monday, December 10, 2012 3:52:55 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:57:37 -0800, noydb wrote:
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> > I want to compare a user entered date-and-time against the date-and-time
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> > of a pdf file.  I posted on this (how to get a file's date-time) before,
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> > was advised to do it like:
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> > import datetime, os, stat
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> > mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME]   // the files modification 
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> > time
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> What language are you writing? Using // for comments is not Python.
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> > dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime)
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> > I am having problems with the comparison, that line is failing.
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> You haven't shown us the comparison line. Would you like us to guess what 
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> it does?
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> My guess is that you are doing this:
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> if mtime is dtime: ... 
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> Am I close?
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> If not, please forgive me, my crystal ball is often faulty.
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> > I think
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> > I may have figured out the issue -- I think it is a matter of the file's
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> > time being 'aware' and the user-input date-time being 'naive'.
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> "Aware" of what?
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> Steven

Forgive me, I was just copying the code from the original reply to my orignal question.

Forgive me for not posting the comparison line, it goes something like
if one_time > another_time:

Forgive me - the 'aware' time vs 'naive' time refers to documentation I found for the datetime module, see second sentence down http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html