Julian Date in Python? 1

[HughJass]

Is there a relatively easy way to render a Julian Date in Python?

Its too bad the strftime() function doesn't have a directive for this, like strftime("%J&quot.

Thanks,
HughJ

 

[ZaSter]

mxDateTime may be of help:

http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html

It has lots of Julian date functions.

 

[HughJass]

Thanks for the link. That package would probably work, but I'm not looking to buy anything for this just yet. I may have to roll my own for this one.

 

[ZaSter]

Sorry. What I meant to send you is this free download of a module named "date.py" (although the mxDateTime is also free, it is more complicated):

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117215

The Julian date features in date.py may be what you are looking for.