time difference interms of day

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Steve Holden wrote:
> On 10/24/2010 1:55 PM, mukkera harsha wrote:
>> Hello 
>>   I was wondering if there is an existing function that would let me 
>> determine the difference in time. To explain: 
>>
>> Upon starting a program: 
>>
>> startup = time.time() 
>>
>> After some very long processing: 
>> now = time.time() 
>>
>>
>> On, doing now - startup I want the program to return in terms of days. How ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Harsha.
>>
> You'd probably be better off using the datetime module. That way you can
> store datetime.datetime.now() at the start of your run and subtract
> datetime.datetime.now() at the end, giving you a datetime.delta object
> which contains days, seconds and microseconds:
> 
>>>> import datetime
>>>> t1 = datetime.datetime.now()
> [waited a while]
>>>> t2 = datetime.datetime.now()
>>>> t2-t1
> datetime.timedelta(0, 16, 509000)
>>>>

Or using mxDateTime:

>>> from mx import DateTime
>>> start = DateTime.now()
>>> stop = DateTime.now()
>>> print stop - start
00:00:04.26

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/

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