Sample usage of timeslice module. Used in the timeslice post in my blog

timeslice-examples.py

from timeslice import *
from datetime import datetime, date

"""
TimeSlice Creation
"""
slice1 = TimeSlice(start=datetime(2009, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0),
                   end=datetime(2009, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0))

slice2 = TimeSlice(start=datetime(2009, 1, 1, 22, 33, 44),
                   end=datetime(2009, 1, 2, 22, 33, 44))


"""
TimeSet Creation
"""
set1 = TimeSet()
set1.append(slice1)

set2 = TimeSet([slice1, slice2])

set3 = TimeSet.fromRange(start=date(2009, 1, 1),
                         end=date(2009, 2, 1),
                         repeat=DAYLY)



"""
Duration
"""
print slice1.duration()
#Out: 86400

print set3.duration()
#Out: 2592000



"""
Sum
"""
print slice1 + slice2
#Out: [<TimeSlice intance (datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2, 22, 33, 44)) >]

set3 + set2


"""
Subtract
"""
print slice1 - slice2
#Out: [<TimeSlice intance (datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2, 22, 33, 44)) >]

set3 - set1


"""
Intersect
"""
print slice1.intersect(slice2)
#Out: <TimeSlice intance (datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 22, 33, 44), datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2, 0, 0)) >

set3.intersect(slice2)
set3.intersect(set2)
slice2.intersect(set3)


"""
Iteration
"""
for x in set2:
    print x
#Out: <TimeSlice intance (datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2, 0, 0)) >
#     <TimeSlice intance (datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2, 22, 33, 44)) >