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Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int()

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On Tue, 10 May 2016 22:31:00 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
><wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>         You invoke strftime() [in default: use current time mode], but pass it
>> a format that is not defined in the documentation (or wasn't in Python 2.7
>> which I'm still running).       #2
>>  %s (lowercase) formats the seconds field of the time of day. And worst,
>> since you don't return the result, it just gets thrown away.    #3
>>
>
>Sorry to nitpick, but this isn't the case. time.strftime("%S") is what
>you're talking about (getting the "seconds since beginning of current
>minute"). There is a "%s" format string, but it's not supported on all
>platforms; it actually would be more useful here, as it represents the
>time as seconds since 1970 (aka "Unix time").
>
	Interesting -- I had the help page open at the time looking for a cap-S
format...

	Maybe not sorted order?

	OKAY, I was wrong on that one -- I'll blame the use of an old
prescription for my glasses in the morning... THIS time I can make out that
it IS a capital S. (The display font in the help viewer may have
contributed -- the % appears taller than the S)
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() George Molsom <georgieelize00@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 02:01 -0700
  Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-05-10 19:16 +1000
  Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-10 08:19 -0400
  Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 22:31 +1000
  Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-10 23:40 +1000
    Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 23:47 +1000
      Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-10 23:55 +1000
  Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int() Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-10 19:57 -0400

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