On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:28 PM, MRAB
Python. There are certainly better ways than stftime. For example, ICU has a date/time format syntax that is much more readable: instead of "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", ICU format is "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss".
I don't think it is hard to find a way to introduce ICU format in datetime.__format__ while preserving backward compatibility. For example, we may require that % is always "escaped" as '%' in ICU format and the presence of unescaped % can trigger strftime interpretation.
[1] http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime
Personally, I prefer some kind of escaping, possibly in the style of .format, e.g. "{year}-{month}-{day} {hour}:{minute}:{second}". (It'll
I am genuinely interested in the ways to improve date/time formatting in probably need a little tinkering to shorten it! :-))
Can someone explain to me why something like this or Anatoly's double-curly-brace variant is an improvement over
from datetime import * "{0.year}-{0.month}-{0.day} {0.hour}:{0.minute}:{0.second}".format(datetime.now()) '2015-4-4 20:43:23'