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]

Re: How to format datetime values

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

[skip@pobox.com]

Re: How to format datetime values


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.

Skip

[Paul Osman]

Re: How to format datetime values

On 1-Jun-06, at 2:55 PM, A.M wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a datetime value and want to format it to "June 1, 2006"
> shape. How
> can I do that?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alan[/color]

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]

Re: How to format datetime values


"BartlebyScrive ner" <rpdooling@gmai l.com> wrote in message
news:1149190242 .446952.52180@j 55g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...[color=blue]
> 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
>[/color]

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.


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



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]

Re: How to format datetime values

A.M a écrit :[color=blue]
> "BartlebyScrive ner" <rpdooling@gmai l.com> wrote in message
> news:1149190242 .446952.52180@j 55g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...[color=green]
>> 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
>>[/color]
>
> Well, I did investigate all tutorial and google and I wasn't able to find
> any built-in way for datetime formatting in Python.[/color]

Really ?

For time formating... have you really really looked at module... 'time'?
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> 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.[/color]

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.