[Python-3000] format and datetime (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric+python-dev at trueblade.com
Mon Sep 10 17:31:23 CEST 2007

Eric Smith wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

I have a patch to add format to datetime.time, .date, and .datetime. For non-empty formatspec's, I just pass on to .strftime. For empty formatspec's, it returns str(self).

I think this is the only reasonable interpretation of formatspec's for datetime. Does anyone think otherwise? Can you please show an example of how it would look like? >>> import datetime >>> format(datetime.datetime.now(), 'date: %Y-%m-%d time:%H:%M:%s') 'date: 2007-09-10 time:11:15:1189437339' >>> format(datetime.datetime.now(), '') '2007-09-10T11:15:51.329639'

Oops, that should have been '%S':

format(datetime.datetime.now(), 'date: %Y-%m-%d time:%H:%M:%S') 'date: 2007-09-10 time:11:28:12'

I'm not sure what strftime does with '%s', I don't see it documented.

datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%s') '1189438155'

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