Getting formatted datetime in Python like in PHP

Question

Hello,

How to get formatted date time in Python the same way as in PHP date('M d Y', $timestamp);?

Answer 1

You can use a suitable strftime function. Here is an example using datetime objects.

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> today = datetime.today()
>>> today.strftime("%m %d %Y")
'09 13 2010'

Answer 2

>>> import time
>>> timestamp = 1284375159
>>> time.strftime("%m %d %Y",time.localtime(timestamp))
'09 13 2010'