[Tutor] Date and Time questions

[Glen Wheeler]

> I have looked around for things that deal with Date and Time.
> All I want to do is be able to assign a date/time value to a variable.
Like
> 20010709_18:05.
> Does not need to be a date object just a text string that I can use to
drop
> into a database table or use in other ways.
>
> The date time stuff seems a bit overly complicated. Any tips or pointers
to
> online resources I may have missed.
>

  You sure this isn't what you want?

>>> import time
>>> time.ctime()
'Tue Jul 10 00:50:35 2001'
>>>

  Isn't that a good enough string?