Printable time

[Alex Martelli]

"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message
news:7m9n2tcp5ff10o97sr1d57qokakjqsa2m9 at 4ax.com...
> Is there a more succinct way of getting the current local time as text
than:
>
> time.strftime('<format>', time.localtime(time.time()))

time.ctime(time.time())

will do, but you get no control over the format -- you do need strftime
if applying a format of your choosing is important, I think.


Alex