Syntax error in if statement - Printable Version

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Syntax error in if statement - Kve - Jun-25-2018

So I'm a quite new python programmer and I'm now working on a digital binary clock (it should convert the hour and minute in binary numbers).
I was trying to add some 0's in front of the binary outputs with a length less than 5 for the hours (because 24, i.e. the greatest number, is 11000 in binary; I wanted to have a constant length of the outputs). The problem is that Python recognises the first thing (symbol, variable, ect.) after "for i in range(5-len(timem)" as a syntax error (whatever I do: if I delete the ":" or everything after "for i in range(5-len(timem)") in:

while True:
    timeh = "{0:b}".format((int(time.ctime()[11:13]))
    
    for i in range(5-len(timeh)):
        timeh = "0" + timeh
    timem = "{0:b}".format((int(time.ctime()[14:16]))
                           
    for i in range(5-len(timem)):
        timem = "0" + timem
                           
    print(timeh + " " + timem)

Could anyone help me please (in a way or in another)?

RE: Syntax error in if statement - gontajones - Jun-25-2018

Here I've got 2 syntax errors, missing ')'s at line 2 and 6.

import time

while True:
    timeh = "{0:b}".format((int(time.ctime()[11:13])))

    for i in range(5 - len(timeh)):
        timeh = "0" + timeh
    timem = "{0:b}".format((int(time.ctime()[14:16])))

    for i in range(5 - len(timem)):
        timem = "0" + timem

    print(timeh + " " + timem)

RE: Syntax error in if statement - ljmetzger - Jun-25-2018

Try syntax like the following in Python 3:

import time
timeh = int(time.ctime()[11:13])
print("timeh = {:05b}".format(timeh))

x = 2
print("x = {:05b}".format(x))
x = 24
print("x = {:05b}".format(x))

Output:timeh = 10010
x = 00010
x = 11000

Lewis

RE: Syntax error in if statement - Kve - Jun-25-2018

Thanks a lot! It really helped me out! :)

RE: Syntax error in if statement - ljmetzger - Jun-26-2018

Another simpler method uses the datetime library which comes with python.
Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html

import datetime
mynow = datetime.datetime.now()
print("mynow = {}".format(mynow))
print("Decimal hour = {}     Binary hour = {:05b}".format(mynow.hour, mynow.hour))

Output:mynow = 2018-06-26 14:46:16.202998
Decimal hour = 14     Binary hour = 01110

Lewis