Question

In Python, how do I convert a time.struct_time such as

time.struct_time(tm_year=2012, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=275, tm_isdst=-1)

to a list such as

[2012, 10, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 275, -1]

My motivation: I’m storing time.struct_time objects like the former in a json file and, when I retrieve them, they are lists like the latter. I need to compare one such list with a time.struct_time; hence my question.

Answer 1

Convert it with list(obj), ex:

>>> a = time.gmtime()
>>> a
time.struct_time(tm_year=2012, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=31, tm_hour=2, tm_min=53, tm_sec=4, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=305, tm_isdst=0)
>>> list(a)
[2012, 10, 31, 2, 53, 4, 2, 305, 0]