Python 1.5.2 -- assigning current time to a variable?

[Jeremy Jones]

>Using:
>timestring = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime())

>Yields:
>TypeError: function requires at least one argument


I'm sure that someone else could point out a more obvious, simpler solution,
but this works:

>>> from time import *
>>> strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime(int(time())))
'2001-10-31 12:43:34'

strftime expects a format and a tuple.  localtime(int(time())) generates a
tuple.