I am using the date time lib to get the current date. After obtaining the current date I need to convert the obtained date to in to a string format. Any help is appriciated
from datetime import date
today=date.today()
print today
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So is it date or time you want? – The Communist Duck Jan 31 '11 at 19:57
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In the future, please highlight your code snippet in the editor and type Ctrl+K or click the `{}` button to format it. – 逆さま Jan 31 '11 at 19:57
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2What's wrong with what you have? `print` converts the value to a string as part of printing it. What more do you want? – S.Lott Jan 31 '11 at 19:58
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You can use today.strftime(format). format will be a string as described here http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime . Example:
from datetime import date
today = date.today()
today.strftime("%x")
#>>> '01/31/11'
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datetime.strftime allows you to format a datetime however you want
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