Python question

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Thu Jan 8 22:58:42 EST 2009


On Tuesday, Jan 6th 2009 at 16:26 -0000, quoth Paul Lussier:

=>
=>Hi Folks,
=>
=>Is there a python way to get HH:MM:SS from time.localtime()  ?
=>
=>I'm trying to time how long it takes a python script to run and have
=>thus done:
=>
=>   BEGIN = time.time()
=>   ....
=>   END = time.time()
=>
=>   ELAPSED = END - BEGIN
=>
=>So, now I have a number like 1231265125.36
=>
=>Which is great, and I can write the code necessary to convert it, but
=>figured that this wheel is probably already invented.
=>
=>And, since I'm just learning python, all better ideas are welcome :)

Think more ooopsier.

#! /usr/bin/python
import datetime
import time

then = datetime.datetime.now()
print "then = ", then

time.sleep(5)

now = datetime.datetime.now()
print "now  = ", now

print "Elapsed = ", now - then


datetime.now() returns a datetime object and those objects allow for 
various types of artithmetic to be perfomed on them. :-)

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