RFC 2822 format date printing function in python

[praba kar]

Dear All,

In Php we can print RFC 2822 formatted date by
date('r') with parameter r. Then it will print the
below format date.
"Thu, 7 Apr 2005 01:46:36 -0300".
I want to print same RFC 2822 format in python. Is it
possible in python? . If possible kindly mention the
function related to print RFC format date

regards,
Prabahar

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[George Yoshida]

praba kar wrote:

In Php we can print RFC 2822 formatted date by
date('r') with parameter r. Then it will print the
below format date.
"Thu, 7 Apr 2005 01:46:36 -0300".
I want to print same RFC 2822 format in python. Is it
possible in python? . If possible kindly mention the
function related to print RFC format date

Not as simple as PHP, but of course it's possible :-)

from email.Utils import formatdate
formatdate(localtime=True)

'Fri, 06 May 2005 18:00:20 +0900'

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.Utils.html

If you want to do the same thing with time module, you need a few
more lines to calcualate the timezone.

quote from footnote:

Note that the sign of the timezone offset is the opposite of the
sign of the time.timezone variable for the same timezone; the
latter variable follows the POSIX standard while this module
follows RFC 2822.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html

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