[pygtk] gtk.Calendar: IN A DIALOG?

[skip at pobox.com]

    Luis> you can use time module and use the localtime function, take the
    Luis> localtime and set it in the gtk.Calendar, it's would be something
    Luis> like this:

    ...

Not directly related to the task at hand, but anytime I need to do any sort
of date arithmetic these days I much prefer to use the datetime module.  The
equivalent of time.localtime() usage would be

    import datetime
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    calendar.select_month(now.year, now.month-1)
    calendar.select_day(now.day)

This particular example doesn't highlight datetime's advantages, but if you
want to do simple date arithmetic it becomes immediately obvious that it is
easier to use:

    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    week_ago = now - datetime.timedelta(days=7)

whereas with the time module everything is done in float and you have to
convert back and forth between float and tuple representations all the time.
In addition, the useful range of datetime objects is much greater than the
current 32-bit float representation.

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