Returning Date As String ?

[Peter Moscatt]

I am wanting to return the system date using the following:

date.today()

How would I then convert this to a string ?

Pete

[anonymousnerd]

if you're using date.today():
x=date.today()

[Roy Smith]

Peter Moscatt <pg*******@optushome.com.au> wrote:

I am wanting to return the system date using the following:

date.today()

How would I then convert this to a string ?

Pete

datetime.data objects have a __str__() method. To convert one to a string,
you just have to cause its __str__() to be invoked. The most common ways
of doing that are str(), %s, or print:

import datetime
d = datetime.date.today()
d datetime.date(2005, 5, 14) # this is the repr() of the object print d 2005-05-14 str(d) '2005-05-14' '%s' % d

'2005-05-14'

[Brian Beck]

Peter Moscatt wrote:

I am wanting to return the system date using the following:

date.today()

How would I then convert this to a string ?

Use the strftime method. The formatting directives are documented here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html

Example: date.today().strftime("%B %d, %Y")

--
Brian Beck
Adventurer of the First Order