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at January 15, 2009 14:16 by chombee
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def format_date_numerical(date):
"""Take a date or datetime object and return a string of the form
YYYY_MM_DD."""
return date.strftime("%Y_%m_%d")
def format_date_pretty(date):
"""Take a date or datetime object and return a string of the form
Thursday 15 January 2009."""
return date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y")
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at January 15, 2009 14:16 by chombee
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def format_date_numerical(date):
"""Take a date or datetime or time object and return a string of the form
YYYY_MM_DD."""
return date.strftime("%Y_%m_%d")
def format_date_pretty(date):
"""Take a date or datetime object and return a string of the form
Thursday 15 January 2009."""
return date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y")
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at January 15, 2009 14:15 by chombee
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def format_date_numerical(date):
"""Take a datetime object and return a string of the form YYYY_MM_DD."""
return date.strftime("%Y_%m_%d")
def format_date_pretty(date):
"""Take a datetime object and return a string of the form Thirsday 15 January
2009."""
return date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y")
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[date](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.date), [datetime](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime) and [time](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.time) objects in Python have a [strftime](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-behavior) method for creating string representations in whatever format you want. (See the strftime link for the strftime syntax.)
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Formatting date strings in Python
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Python