compound strip() string problem

[Sidharth Kuruvila]

The time module has a function called 'strftime' which can retyrn the
time in the the format you want to. So you really don't need to parse
the string returned by asctime the way you are doing.


On Apr 8, 2005 6:01 PM, Dylan Wilson <goandspamyourself at doamin.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to python and i have a string problem.
> My problem is this
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  >>>import time
>  >>>time = time.asctime()
>  >>>time
> 'Fri Apr 08 22:14:14 2005'
>  >>>ti = time[0:13]
>  >>>me = time[14:16]
>  >>>time = ti + me
>  >>>time
> 'Fri Apr 08 2214'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Now i need to compond that string remove the whitespace if you will.Well
> i read up on strip(), lstrip() and rstrip() and all i could deduce was
> that they striped the whitespace from the start and/or end of the
> string.But I tried that anyway and failed.Is there an easier way than i
> did it below? I'm sorry it's ugly and tedious.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash/env python
> 
> import os, time
> 
> #Figure out what os this is
> platform = os.name
> 
> #Create string with date, time and extension for our pcap file
> ext = '.out'
> time = time.asctime()
> ti = time[0:13]       #
> me = time[14:16]     #
> time = ti + me      #There has to be a better way to do this?
> fo = time[0:3]       #
> rm = time[4:7]        #
> at  = time[11:18]
> time = fo + rm + at + ext
> 
> #Get rid of yukkies
> del ti, me, ext, fo, rm, at
> 
> #create command string
> flag = '-w'
> wincommand = 'c:/progra~1/ethereal/tethereal'
> lincommand = '/usr/sbin/./tethereal'
> 
> #run tethereal and send the output to a pcap file DDDMMMHHMM.out
> 
> if platform == 'nt':
>      os.system('%s %s %s' % (wincommand, flag, time))
> 
> if platform == 'posix':
>      os.system('%s %s %s' % (lincommand, flag, time))
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thanks,
> Dylan
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