How to format datetime values

[A.M]

Hi,

I have a datetime value and want to format it to "June 1, 2006" shape. How
can I do that?

Thank you,

Alan

[BartlebyScrivener]

Are you trying to get banned, or what?

It's the equivalent of me asking you:

Hey, does Ruby have anything like dictionaries and will you teach me
about strings? Oh, and what's an object?

Go read the bleeping tutorial.

rd

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Alan> I have a datetime value and want to format it to "June 1, 2006"
Alan> shape. How can I do that?

Again, Python's introspection capabilities to the rescue:

% pydoct datetime
Help on module datetime:

NAME
datetime - Fast implementation of the datetime type.
...
class datetime(date)
| datetime(year, month, day[, hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[,tzinfo]]]]])
...
| strftime(...)
| format -> strftime() style string.

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[Paul Osman]

On 1-Jun-06, at 2:55 PM, A.M wrote:

Hi,

I have a datetime value and want to format it to "June 1, 2006"
shape. How
can I do that?

Thank you,

Alan

Why don't you just post the specs to your program and maybe someone
will write it *FOR* you in less than a day?

This is quicker than waiting for replies:

Python Tutorial
http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

Module Index
http://docs.python.org/modindex.html

Cheers,

--
Paul Osman
http://www.eval.ca

[A.M]

"BartlebyScrivener" <rp*******@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@j55g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

Are you trying to get banned, or what?

It's the equivalent of me asking you:

Hey, does Ruby have anything like dictionaries and will you teach me
about strings? Oh, and what's an object?

Go read the bleeping tutorial.

rd

Well, I did investigate all tutorial and google and I wasn't able to find
any built-in way for datetime formatting in Python. In fact I cannot find
any way to format a long integer into 99,999,9999 format. I know how to
format strings with C printf like formatter, but I am sure what I am trying
to do can't be done with C printf formatting.

I also found that mx.DateTime perfectly does date formatting and much more,
but I don't want to add another step to the deployment process.

It's the equivalent of me asking you:
and will you teach me about strings? Oh, and what's an object?

The answer to this post could be just a function name. I don't think I asked
about broad concepts such as the object or strings. What I am asking here is
just a clue.

[Laurent Pointal]

A.M a écrit :

"BartlebyScrivener" <rp*******@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@j55g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

Are you trying to get banned, or what?

It's the equivalent of me asking you:

Hey, does Ruby have anything like dictionaries and will you teach me
about strings? Oh, and what's an object?

Go read the bleeping tutorial.

rd

Well, I did investigate all tutorial and google and I wasn't able to find
any built-in way for datetime formatting in Python.

Really ?

For time formating... have you really really looked at module... 'time'?
In fact I cannot find
any way to format a long integer into 99,999,9999 format. I know how
to format strings with C printf like formatter, but I am sure what I
am trying to do can't be done with C printf formatting.

For long integer formating like your example, its not direct - maybe
look at locale formating of numbers (module... 'locale').
And I recently annouce the PQRC (on clp.announce), which can gives you
some directions:
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python/pqrc/
A+

Laurent.