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junkfoodjunkie
junkfoodjunkie

Reputation: 3178

Increase value of time"stamp" based on previous content - string

Okay, I was really unsure what to title this. I have a game, where I update the time manually, via a variable. $ current_hour = "07:00" for instance

What I want to be able to do, is increase this without having to manually enter a new time every time. Something like this: $ current_hour += 1 (I know this of course won't work)

So, I tried as follows:

hour = current_hour
current_hour = str(int(hour[:2]+1)+hour[3:])

which then, hopefully, would give me 08:00 - but it doesn't work, and I'm a little stumped as to why. The error I get is coercing to unicode, need string or buffer, int found I thought I took care of that with the declaring as int() and str() respectively, but obviously I didn't. So, I suck at Python - anyone able to help with this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 77

Answers (2)

MKRNaqeebi
MKRNaqeebi

Reputation: 593

Try this:

current_hour = "12:00"
current_hour = str(int(current_hour[:2])+1)+current_hour[2:]

if len(current_hour)==4:
  current_hour = '0' + current_hour

if int(current_hour[:2]) >= 13:
  current_hour = str(int(current_hour[:2])-12)+current_hour[2:]

if len(current_hour)==4:
  current_hour = '0' + current_hour

Upvotes: 3

Turksarama
Turksarama

Reputation: 209

Don't reinvent the wheel, and use datetime objects.

from datetime import time
current_hour = time(7)
current_hour # datetime.time(7, 0)

def addhour(time, hours):
    return time.replace(hour = (time.hour + hours)%24)

addhour(current_hour, 1) # datetime.time(8, 0)
current_hour.isoformat() # '08:00:00'

Upvotes: 0

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