[Tutor] stfftime question

[Tom Tucker]

I found a temporary solution.  The goal in the end was to compare two
dates/times and  retrieve the millisecond delta between the two.

Work around
#############
import datetime
import time
t1 = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
t2 = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,553)
t1tuple = time.mktime(t1.timetuple())+(t1.microsecond/1000.)
t2tuple = time.mktime(t2.timetuple())+(t2.microsecond/1000.)
delta  = (t2tuple - t1tuple) * 1000
print delta



On 7/4/06, Tom Tucker <tktucker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Below is an example of me converting a datetime to milliseconds on a
> Mac running Pythong 2.3.5.  The same working code on a Solaris system
> with Python 2.3.2 fails.  Any thoughts? What arguments am I missing?
>
>
>
> From my Mac
> #############
> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Oct  5 2005, 11:07:27)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import datetime
> >>> dtstr = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
> >>> output = dtstr.strftime('%s.%%03d') % (dtstr.microsecond)
> >>> print output
> 115977805.453
>
>
> From Work (Solaris)
> ################
> Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov 17 2003, 22:32:28)
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on sunos5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import datetime
> >>> dtstr = datetime.datetime(1973,9,4,04,3,25,453)
> >>> output = dtstr.strftime('%s.%%03d') % (dtstr.microsecond)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
> >>>
>