need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/12/2013 12:16, matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, December 27, 2013 1:49:54 PM UTC-5, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>> On 12/27/13 1:09 PM, matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> On Friday, December 27, 2013 11:27:58 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote:
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>>>> In article <0c33b7e4-edc9-4e1e-b919-fec210c92d4a at googlegroups.com>,
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>>>>    matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com wrote:
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>>>>> I am on Ubuntu 12.10.   I am still working with the 2 decimal places.
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>>>>> Sometime ago i had this issue and I forget how i solved it. maybe i used
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>>>>> datetime? thanks!
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>>>> That's strange.  Linux should give you time to the microsecond, or
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>>>> something in that range.
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>>>> Please post the *exact* code you're running.  The code you posted
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>>>> earlier is obviously only a fragment of some larger program, so we can
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>>>> only guess what's happening.  Assuming your program is in a file called
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>>>> "prog.py", run the following commands and copy-paste the output:
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>>> i cant run it that way.  i tried using the python prompt in terminal but got nothing.  but here is all the code relevant to this issue:
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>>> #all the imports
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>>> import sys
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>>> import posixpath
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>>> import time
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>>> from time import strftime
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>>> from datetime import datetime
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>>> import os
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>>> import wx
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>>> import cPickle as pickle
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>>> import gnuradio.gr.gr_threading as _threading
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>>> #the function that writes the time values
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>>>    def update(self, field_values):
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>>>           now = datetime.now()
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>>>           #logger ---------------
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>>>           #  new line to write on
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>>>           self.logfile.write('\n')
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>>>           #  write date, time, and seconds from the epoch
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>>>           self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(strftime("%Y-%m-%d",)))
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>>>           self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(now.strftime("%H:%M:%S",)))
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>>>           self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(time.time()))
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>>>           # list to store dictionary keys in tis order
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>>>           keys = ["duid", "nac",  "tgid", "source", "algid", "kid"]
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>>>           # loop through the keys in the right order
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>>>           for k in keys:
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>>>               #  get the value of the current key
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>>>               f = field_values.get(k, None)
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>>>               # if data unit has value...
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>>>               if f:
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>>>                   #  output the value with trailing tab
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>>>                   self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(f)))
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>>>               # if data unit doesnt have this value print a tab
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>>>               else:
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>>>                   self.logfile.write('\t')
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>>>           #end logger ----------------
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>>>           #if the field 'duid' == 'hdu', then clear fields
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>>>           if field_values['duid'] == 'hdu':
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>>>               self.clear()
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>>>           elif field_values['duid'] == 'ldu1':
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>>>               self.clear()
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>>>           elif field_values['duid'] == 'ldu2':
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>>>               self.clear()
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>>>           #elif field_values['duid'] == 'tdu':
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>>>            #   self.clear()
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>>>           #loop through all TextCtrl fields storing the key/value pairs in k, v
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>>>           for k,v in self.fields.items():
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>>>               # get the dict value for this TextCtrl
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>>>               f = field_values.get(k, None)
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>>>               # if the value is empty then set the new value
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>>>               if f:
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>>>                   v.SetValue(f)
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>>> #sample output in a .txt file:
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:33	1388164053.18
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:33	1388164053.36
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:33	1388164053.54
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:33	1388164053.73
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:33	1388164053.91
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:34	1388164054.11
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:34	1388164054.28
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:34	1388164054.48
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:34	1388164054.66
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:34	1388164054.84
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:37	1388164057.62
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:37	1388164057.81
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:37	1388164057.99
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:38	1388164058.18
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:38	1388164058.37
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:38	1388164058.54
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:38	1388164058.73
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>>> 2013-12-27	12:07:38	1388164058.92
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>>> Thanks!
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>> Instead of:
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>>       "%s" % time.time()
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>> try:
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>>       "%.6f" % time.time()
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>> %.6f is a formatting code meaning, floating-point number, 6 decimal places.
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>> --
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>> Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com
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> thanks a bunch.  the "%.6f"  was the cure.  can you please point me to the doc for formatting time?  Thanks!
>

Would you please read and action this 
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing the 
double line spacing above, thanks.

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Mark Lawrence