Time in python

[Peter Hansen]

David Lees wrote:
> 
> Gold Fish wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how we seperate the time in the file name in python.
> > For example
> > python.txt 28/05/02 06:25

> If you are asking about text processing for a particular type of output,
> how about:
> 
> >>> x ='python.txt 28/05/02 06:25'
> >>> string.split(x)[2]
> '06:25'

And hope that there are no spaces in the file name.... ;-)

>>> x = 'name with space.txt 28/05/02 06:25'
>>> x.split(' ')[2]             # brittle
'space.txt'
>>> x.split(' ')[-1]            # better
'06:25'
>>> x[x.rfind(' ') + 1 : ]      # kind of ugly
'06:25'

-Peter