[Tutor] Help with time module

Fri May 13 17:14:16 CEST 2005

Thank you so much Kent

That's exactly what I was lookin for

Regards

Alberto


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>From: Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>
>CC: tutor at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with time module
>Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:56:17 -0400
>
>Alberto Troiano wrote:
> > I have two strings like this
> >
> > hour1="14:30"
> > hour2="15:30"
> >
> > I want to compare them like this:
> >
> > if local_time between hour1 and hour2:
> >     print True
> > else
> >     print False
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to make that comparison to work??????? (I don't 
>know
> > how to take only the time in this format(Hour:Minutes))
>
>time.strptime() can parse the time string to a time tuple, then you can 
>pull out a tuple of (hours,
>minutes) and compare.
>
>   >>> import time
>   >>> time.strptime('10:23', '%H:%M')
>(1900, 1, 1, 10, 23, 0, 0, 1, -1)
>
>Here is a helper function that extracts (hours, minutes) from a provided 
>string, or from the clock
>time if no string is given:
>
>   >>> def getHoursMinutes(ts=None):
>   ...   if ts:
>   ...     t = time.strptime(ts, '%H:%M')
>   ...   else:
>   ...     t = time.localtime()
>   ...   return (t.tm_hour, t.tm_min)
>   ...
>   >>> getHoursMinutes()
>(9, 52)
>   >>> getHoursMinutes('8:34')
>(8, 34)
>   >>> hour1="14:30"
>   >>> hour2="15:30"
>   >>> getHoursMinutes(hour1)
>(14, 30)
>
>The values returned from getHoursMinutes() can be compared directly:
>
>   >>> getHoursMinutes(hour1) <= getHoursMinutes() <= 
>getHoursMinutes(hour2)
>False
>   >>> hour1='8:56'
>   >>> getHoursMinutes(hour1) <= getHoursMinutes() <= 
>getHoursMinutes(hour2)
>True
>
>Kent
>
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