Stripping off the seconds in datetime python

Question

now() gives me

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 6, 5, 27, 23, 662390)

How do I get just datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 6, 5, 27, 0, 0) (the datetime object) where everything after minutes is zero?

Answer 1

dt.replace( second=0, microsecond=0)

http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.replace

Answer 2

You can use datetime.replace to obtain a new datetime object without the seconds and microseconds:

the_time = datetime.now()
the_time = the_time.replace(second=0, microsecond=0)