On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Sander Sweers<sander.sweers at gmail.com> wrote: > import time > > today = time.localtime() > datestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d",today) > ext = ".tab" > > print datestr + ext You can include literal characters in the format string: In [4]: time.strftime("%Y%m%d.tab",today) Out[4]: '20090717.tab' Kent