newbie printing question

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 adina_levin at mindspring.com wrote:

> I'd like to create a string with the current date and time. I've got the
> mxDateTime library, so far so good.
>
> print mxDateTime.now() will generate the date and time to the screen. write
> will send it to a file.
>
> But how can I assign this to a string?
>
> I will be most thankful and embarrassed to hear the answer to this question.
> It oughta be obvious!

Use time.localtime() along with time.strftime().

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