how to compare strftime values

Question

I have two values created from strftime as below

TIMEFORMAT=\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"

time1 = time.strftime(TIMEFORMAT)
time2 = time.strftime(TIMEFORMAT)
         


        

Answer 1

Hope this helps you:

In [1]: from datetime import datetime, timedelta

In [2]: nd = datetime.now()

In [3]: pd = nd - timedelta(hours=1)

In [4]: snd = nd.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

In [5]: spd = pd.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

In [6]: print(snd, spd)
('2013-11-22 15:21:22', '2013-11-22 14:21:22')

In [7]: datetime.strptime(snd, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") > datetime.strptime(spd, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
Out[7]: True