Now()

[Tim Golden]

Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:

> I'm using the following function 'str (now)' to place a date time stamp into
> a log file, which works fine, however it writes the stamp like this.

> 2007-04-25 11:06:53.873029

> But I need to expel those extra decimal places as they're causing problems
> with the application that parses the log data, all I need is something like
> this:

> 2007-04-25 11:06:53

> With time depicted to the nearest second, from my background in ColdFusion
> development we used to have a datetimeformat() function that I could use as

> DateTimeFormat(now(), "yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss")

> Which would give the current time a mask.

> Any equivalent for this in python?

You want the strftime method which is documented under
the time module.

<trivial example>
import datetime
print datetime.datetime.now ().strftime ("%Y-%m-%d etc.")

</trivial example>

TJG