Problem saving datetime to file and reading it back for a calculation
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sun Oct 11 17:08:26 EDT 2020
On 2020-10-11 20:25, Steve wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I must have spent hours looking on-line for a method to treat datetime
> variables yet not one site mentioned the "pickle" module you indicatged. I
> did, however solve my problem. It may be a kluge but it seems to work.
>
> I learned that I cannot use print() to display the value of datetime but
> once I saved it to a file, I could see it. If I used "d3 = d2.isoformat" it
> could be sent to a file with a write statement. Apparently, it gives a
> write/read format and places a T between the date and time as a separator.
>
> In trying to read it back into the program and work the calculation, I had
> to replace the T with a space and some formatting. It all worked.
[snip]
Given:
import datetime
To convert a datetime d to an ISO-format string, you can use:
s = d.isoformat()
To convert an ISO-format string s to a datetime, you can use:
d = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat()
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