[Python-ideas] Provide __main__ for datetime and time

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/04/2016 19:02, Michel Desmoulin wrote:
> As with my previous email about __main__ for random, uuid and os, I wish
> to suggest a similar __main__ for datetime. The target audience may not
> be the same, so I'm making it a difference proposal.
>
> E.G:
>
> python -m datetime now => print(str(datetime.datetime.now())
> python -m datetime utcnow => print(str(datetime.datetime.utcnow())
> python -m time epoch => print(time.time())
>
> python -m datetime now "%d/%m/%Y" =>
> print(str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y"))
> python -m datetime utcnow "%d/%m/%Y" =>
> print(str(datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%d/%m/%Y"))

Not very funny for 1st April.  Would you care to have another go?

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Mark Lawrence