How can I know if a date is prior to today?

[Tim Chase]

> I have a date expressed in seconds.
> I'd want to pretty print it as "%H:%M" if the time refers to today and
> "%b%d" (month, day) if it's of yesterday or before.
> 
> I managed to do that with the code below but I don't like it too much.
> Is there a better way to do that?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> import time
> 
> today_day = time.strftime("%d", time.localtime(time.time()))
> mytime = time.localtime(time.time() - (60*60*30))  # dummy time prior
> to today
> if time.strftime("%d", mytime) == today_day:
>     print time.strftime("%H:%M", mytime)
> else:
>     print time.strftime("%b%d", mytime)

Well, date/datetime objects are directly comparable:

   import datetime
   today_day = datetime.date.today()
   other = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(your_timestamp)
   if other.date() == today_day:
     fmt = "%H:%M"
   else:
     fmt = "%b%d"
   print other.strftime(fmt)

-tkc