Re: [Jython-users] time.localtime() Format Question

[Jeff E. <jem...@fr...>]

strftime
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html

WordWeaver wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am a brand new Python programmer with barely a month of
> experience under my belt.
> 
> 
> Here are my specs:
> 
> Mac OSX Panther 10.3.9
> Jython 2.1 implementation
> Hermes BBS python module installed
> 
> 
> And now the problem...
> 
> Right now I am having a small problem figuring out how to
> properly format the "User Last Log-On" date for the new
> external/door that I am writing for our Hermes BBS.
> 
> Initially, I was using the following in my user
> initialization function near the top of the code:
> 
> user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime()
> 
> "user.data.usrUndrLast" is a user data object that I created
> to display the last time that a person used the external. As
> you can see, I an setting the value of the object to
> "time.localtime()".
> 
> The problem is that the above code gives me a long string like
> this:
> 
> (2006, 8, 19, 23, 39, 15, 5, 231, 0)
> 
> Well, that obviously is not what I want or need. I don't
> need seconds, or whatever that is that follows after
> seconds...And that isn't the format I want either.
> 
> So I scrounged around in the example code for another
> external I have here, as well as in the hermes.py, (module
> which contains some of the BBS's proprietary functions), the
> jython-2.1 folder, (Python implementation I am using with the
> BBS), and even in my OSX Python installation, and then also
> on the web, looking for a clue regarding how to get it to do
> what I want it to do.
> 
> I figured out that adding [:3] like this:
> 
> user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime()[:3]
> 
> ...would reduce it to just "(2006, 8, 19)", but that is still
> not what I want it to do. The format is wrong.
> 
> I found a lot of interesting stuff inside of "rfc822.py"
> concerning date and time formats, but I am still not grasping
> quite how to do this.
> 
> Right now, I am getting a TypeError, I guess because
> time.localtime only deals with integers, and I am trying to
> throw strings at it as well, like this:
> 
> user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime('%a, %d %b %Y')
> 
> I was hoping that the above code would produce something like this:
> 
> Sun 20 Aug 2006
> 
> ...but what I am getting is a TypeError which states:
> 
> "TypeError: localtime(): 1st arg can't be coerced to double"
> 
> Being new to Python/Jython, I don't quite understand it.
> 
> So at this point, I am pretty stumped. In the list of
> players, I just want it to show when they were last logged
> into the external, preferably in one of the following
> formats:
> 
> Sun 20 Aug 2006
> Sun Aug 20 2006
> Aug 20 2006
> 08-20-06
> 08-20-2006
> 08/20/2006
> 08/20/06
> 
> Once the above code, (user.data.usrUndrLast = time.localtime),
> initializes their last log-on date, I am using that date in
> a user list by appending the date to the user list like this:
> 
>      for u in external.users.values():
>          usrList.append({
>         'name': u.data.usrUndrName,
>         'levl': u.data.usrUndrLevl,
>         'scor': u.data.usrUndrScor,
>         'last': u.data.usrUndrLast,  # The one we're dealing with
>          })
> 
> The above list code queries the external for the values that
> it has stored for each user. When it gets to the "last" item
> in the list, the external is supposed to send it the value
> for "u.data.usrUndrLast", (which it does), which is filled in
> with the value of "time.localtime()" Once the list is made,
> the "last" code will be displayed in the user list using this
> piece of code:
> 
> print Style(fgLtGreen)('%(last)-10s' % markUsr)
> 
> For the record, I do have "import time" at the top of my
> code. I looked all over the place for a module called
> "time.py", but couldn't find one. So I didn't quite
> understand where "time.py" was being imported from. I finally
> figured that it must just be a function which is being
> imported from one of the jython modules that I was looking
> at...although I never found an exact function called "time()"
> or "time.localtime().
> 
> So if anyone can lend me a hand with this, I'd really appreciate
> it. I am really working hard, and doing the best I can to learn
> Python, (my very first programming language), but I still require
> some guidance.
> 
> If anyone here can tell me how to get the results that I want, I
> would really appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
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