Python does not let me format time.

Jerome Chan eviltofu at rocketmail.com
Thu Apr 27 20:52:54 EDT 2000


In article <8eakhq$797$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Sindh <skodela at my-deja.com> 
wrote:

> Hi folks
> 
> I have a file full of date, value pairs. Date is like MM/DD/YY. My
> problem is I want to format this file since it contains a few thousand
> lines of data , using python. I tried using string and time modules. I
> want to format the time value to a float which is returned by
> time.gmtime normally. I tried to split it and to use parts of it to make
> a tuple and to use time.mktime but it says illegal operation for
> builtin.
> 
> Summary:
> 
> data is:
> 	03/11/98 abcd
> 	03/12/98 efgh
> 
> I split it to
> 	x=string.split(n[0],' ')
> 	which gave me x='03/11/98'
> Now I split it again by
> 	x=string.split(x,'/')
> 	which gave a tuple of '03','11','98'
> Now I tried  to make time as
> time.mktime(x[2],x[0],x[1],'','','','','','')

use 0,0,0,0,0,0 for the rest of the tuple

> The problem is it says illegal operation for builtin. I tried to use the
> string val and int val as the arguments for mktime.
> 
> Anyone with any helpful ideas!!
> 
> If there is already a moduls to do the same , much helpful.
> 
> Thanks
> sreekant
> 
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