Hot Date

Hot Date

Great job printing out the date's components! In gearing up for our ultimate goal of printing out mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss, let's tackle adding / slashes to the date's parts.

You might think to do something like:

print now.month, "/", now.day, "/", now.year

However, this would incorrectly give you spaces between the slashes. Hence, the better solution is to use string concatenation (the + operator), covered in Unit 2.

As you'll see, it's not as simple as just using concatenation—mainly becauseconcatenation only works with strings.

When you extract information likenow.year, you end up with an integer (a positive or negative whole number). To convert an integer to a string, you can use the str() function. For example, if a variable x had the value 4 and we wanted to convert that into "4",

from datetime import datetime
now=datetime.now()
current_year = now.year
current_month=now.month
current_day=now.day
print now.year
print now.month
print now.day
print("%d\n%d\n%d" %(current_month,current_day,current_year))
print("type(now)=%s\ntype(now.year)=%s\ntype(now.month)=%s\ntype(now.day)=%s"%(type(now),type(current_year),type(current_month),type(current_day)))
print("%d/%d/%d"%(current_month,current_day,current_year))
currentdate=str(current_month)+"/"+str(current_day)+"/"+str(current_year)
print currentdate