Heh. Your example would look very, very nice in the timedelta
(<a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-timedelta.html">http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-timedelta.html</a>) section of the
docs! :-)<br>
<br>
It makes perfect sense, the authors probably thought it was too easy to need an explaination ...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kent Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:kent37@tds.net">
kent37@tds.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">doug shawhan wrote:<br>> I've been looking at datetime and cannot figure out what was a very
<br>> simple operation with the time module.<br>><br>> How does one add or subtract 24 (or any number) of hours from a given<br>> date and time using the datetime module?<br><br>Use a datetime.timedelta:<br><br>
In [1]: import datetime<br><br>In [2]: now = datetime.datetime.now()<br><br>In [3]: now<br>Out[3]: datetime.datetime(2006, 6, 12, 16, 7, 47, 69000)<br><br>In [4]: one_day = datetime.timedelta(hours=24)<br><br>In [5]: now-one_day
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