[Zope] Re: ExtFile date format

[Mike Bunyan]

Many thanks.
I was not aware of the 'int' max.

I have tried your suggestions with some success.

I have decided to try and introduce a new option for 'year' which I
think will be more flexible for use by others.

Mike B

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:56:32 +0100, Dieter Maurer
<dieter@handshake.de> wrote:

>Mike Bunyan wrote at 2003-1-23 22:22 +0000:
> > I would like to change the date format used in ExtFile to include the
> > year like %Y%m%d%H%M%S. At present the script will on accept
> > %m%d%H%M%S
> > 
> > Using the extra characters created by %Y gets the zope error:
> > Error Type: ValueError
> > Error Value: int() literal too large: 20030123222057
> > 
> > I am setting the FILE_FORMAT = "%n-%t%e"
> > Changing Line 590 to:
> > counter = int(DateTime().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S'))
> > 
> > What's else needs to be changed please?
>The "int" data type has a limit: its a bit above 2.000.000.000.
>
>If you need something bigger, you must use "long" (which
>does not have a limit).
>However, the "%i" and "%d" format specifiers can overflow.
>You can try "%s" or you need to provide your own conversion
>from long to string.
>
>
>Dieter
>
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