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chombee on 01/15/09


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Formatting date strings in Python

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date, datetime and time objects in Python have a strftime method for creating string representations in whatever format you want. (See the strftime link for the strftime syntax.)

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  1. def format_date_numerical(date):
  2.     """Take a date or datetime object and return a string of the form 
  3.     YYYY_MM_DD."""
  4.     return date.strftime("%Y_%m_%d")
  5.  
  6. def format_date_pretty(date):
  7.     """Take a date or datetime object and return a string of the form 
  8.     Thursday 15 January 2009."""
  9.     return date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y")

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