How to check if datetime is older than 20 seconds
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Solution 1
You can use the datetime.timedelta datatype, like this:
import datetime
lastplus = q.get()
if lastplus.date < datetime.datetime.now()-datetime.timedelta(seconds=20):
print "Go"
Read more about it here: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html
Cheers,
Philip
Solution 2
Try this:
from datetime import timedelta, datetime
if lastplus.date < datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(seconds = -20):
print "fee fie fo foo!"
Author by
Jelle
Updated on March 08, 2020Comments
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Jelle about 4 years
This is my first time here so I hope I post this question at the right place. :)
I need to build flood control for my script but I'm not good at all this datetime to time conversions with UTC and stuff. I hope you can help me out. I'm using the Google App Engine with Python. I've got a datetimeproperty at the DataStore database which should be checked if it's older than 20 seconds, then proceed.
Could anybody help me out?
So in semi-psuedo:
q = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Kudo WHERE fromuser = :1", user) lastplus = q.get() if lastplus.date is older than 20 seconds: print"Go!"