outputting time in microseconds or milliseconds

[matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com]

On Friday, August 2, 2013 8:35:13 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:54:32 -0700, matt.doolittle33 wrote:
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> > Hey everybody,
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> > I am using 2.7 on Ubuntu 12.10.  All I need to do is to print time with
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> > the microseconds.  I have been looking at the docs and trying things for
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> > about half a day now with no success.  Currently my code looks like
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> > this:
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> >         #  write date and time and microseocnds
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> >         self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(strftime("%Y-%m-%d", ))))
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> >         self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(strftime("%H:%M:%S", ))))
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> >         self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(time()))) 
 
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> What's this time() function? Where does it come from, and what does it 
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> do? By the look of it, it merely returns the string "00:00:00". The 
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> time.time() function returns a number of seconds:
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> py> "%s" % time.time()
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> '1375445812.873546'
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> 
right this is the number that i need in the third column. so should i try?: 

> >         self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(time.time())))