[Tutor] pythonic

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Apr 1 17:58:51 EDT 2018


On01/04/18 20:20, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> fmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M\n"
> f.write(now.strftime(fmt))
> Lately I've been using format(), which uses __format__, because I find it slightly more readable:
> format(datetime.now(), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
Interesting,
I didn't know that format() recognised the datetime format codes.
I assumed it would just use the printf codes.

Time to do some more reading I see.

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