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just wondering if there is anything in python to give the date automaticly, just like excel has =today()

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You should try using the time module
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  1. import time
  2. print time.localtime()
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cheers mate.

it gives me a returen of
"(2008, 6, 4, 19, 11, 46, 2, 156, 0)"
which is Year, month, day, hour, min, seconds, something, something, someting
how do i get only 24hour time, so i can get 19.11
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you can use the following code:
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  1. time.localtime()[3:5]
that just gives the hour and the minutes
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mate your a legend.
is it possibe to subtract one time from another?

i want to say,
19 , 32 take 19, 22
and it will leave me with the answer
10

mate i appreciate it.
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you could do it by making it into the amount of minutes. This way you can make sure it stays base 60
TO get the difference in minutes:
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  1. g = time.localtime()[3:5]
  2. f = time.localtime()[3:5]
  3. m = g[0]*60+g[1]
  4. n = f[0]*60+f[1]
  5. print n-m
to make it back into hours and minutes:
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  1. g = time.localtime()[3:5]
  2. f = time.localtime()[3:5]
  3. m = g[0]*60+g[1]
  4. n = f[0]*60+f[1]
  5. g=n-m
  6. hours = g/60
  7. g=g-hours*60
  8. mn = g
  9. print hours,":",mn
I think that works
Last edited by Paul Thompson; Jun 4th, 2008 at 6:45 am. Reason: used keyword as variable
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no worries
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got another one for ya mate.
same thing but for the date? to give me dd/mm/yy?
same as =today() in excel.
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well im at it.
sorry to be a pain, but still learning.. and loving it, your helping majorly!!

i have two more issues, and than i've finished it.
how can i make it, instead of "press enter to exit" that you press enter to go back to the top of the program and run again?
cheers again!
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