Python: Time-string

[LEO-oo-]

I have a string with a time stamp:

time = "00:20:30" # HH:MM:SS

How to add 4 seconds to this string? Thanks a lot!

[rdg]

I have a string with a time stamp:

time = "00:20:30" # HH:MM:SS

How to add 4 seconds to this string? Thanks a lot!

You probably could do some split() magic and add 4 seconds to the last part.

More convient would be to split it and convert completely to seconds and just format the output string.

Not sure if the datetime[1] module is very usable for this, but it's worth a look.

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html

[eloop]

Something like this will work. I've broken it up into a function to make it a bit cleaner, and a bit more general.

def add_seconds(timestring,n):
	h,m,s = map(int,timestring.split(":"))
	ts = s + 60*m + 60*60*h + n
	h,ts = divmod(ts,60*60)
	m,s = divmod(ts,60)
	return "%0.2d:%0.2d:%0.2d" % (h%24,m,s)

time = "00:20:30" # HH:MM:SS
newtime = add_seconds(time,4)
print time,newtime

-Drew

I have a string with a time stamp:

time = "00:20:30" # HH:MM:SS

How to add 4 seconds to this string? Thanks a lot!

[LEO-oo-]

@rdg

Ich war auch schon auf dieser Seite

@eloop

It works perfect - thanks a lot!!! :)

[rdg]

@rdg

Ich war auch schon auf dieser Seite

yep Drew's way is more applicable here.