Re: plpython timestamp without time zone, showing up as text instead of timestamp

On 03/23/2014 09:47 AM, jared wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Adrian Klaver
> <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
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>     Intended:
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>     http://www.postgresql.org/__docs/9.3/interactive/plpython-__data.html
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/plpython-data.html>
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>     FYI, it would be a good idea to include the Postgres version.
>     plpython has been undergoing a lot of changes recently, so it would
>     help to peg where you are at in that sequence.
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> Ah, I see it now:
> "All other data types, including the PostgreSQL character string types,
> are converted to a Python str."
> Thanks (as an aside Postgres 9.3 and python 2.7)
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>     I find dateutil(https://labix.org/__python-dateutil
>     <https://labix.org/python-dateutil>) a handy package to have in this
>     situation. Use parse() from the parser module to do the heavy
>     lifting of converting from a string into a date/datetime object.
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> I will look into that - thanks again.

Should have added previously, if you use dateutil you can dispense with:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

and use the relativedelta module from dateutil to do your offsets


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com