Awkward format string

[beginner]

Hi,

In order to print out the contents of a list, sometimes I have to use
very awkward constructions. For example, I have to convert the
datetime.datetime type to string first, construct a new list, and then
send it to print. The following is an example.

	x=(e[0].strftime("%Y-%m-%d"), e[1].strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))+e[2:]
	print  >>f, "%s\t%s\t%d\t%f\t%f\t%f\t%d" % x

e is a tuple. x is my new tuple.

Does anyone know better ways of handling this?

Thanks,
Geoffrey