[Tutor] time question

[Kalle Svensson]

[Rob Andrews]
> But fortunately I have a nice, specific question. After user input, I
> have the quit time stored thusly:
[time juggling]
> Does anyone know a way to do this more directly, elegantly, or briefly?

You could use time.localtime() to get a tuple and then compare the tuples.
Extremely crude example:

>>> import time
>>> quitTime = (2001, 8, 22, 9, 45, -1, -1, -1, -1)
>>> for field, index in zip(["years", "months", "days", "hours", "minutes"],
...                         range(5)):
...     print field, time.localtime(time.time())[index] - quitTime[index]
... 
years 0
months 0
days 1
hours 8
minutes -13
>>> 

Don't know if it's better...

Peace,
  Kalle
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