Question

Hello I every can any one tell me exactly how to extract date and time in python I am taking a course and I keep getting track back errors on line 4 but I am FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS TO A T HELP!!!

Answer 1

i think this will help
#!/usr/bin/python
import time; # This is required to include time module.

ticks = time.time()
print "Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970:", ticks

Answer 2

what is ur code?

Answer 3

from datetime import datetime
print datetime.now
current_month, day, year = now.date
print now.date()

Answer 4

trying to get the month day and year

Answer 5

import datetime
today = datetime.datetime.now()
day_of_year = (today - datetime.datetime(today.year, 1, 1)).days + 1

Answer 6

2012-10-18 00:35:17.066445
Oops, try again. Make sure that you're using the variable now to grab the parts of the date

Answer 7

thats the error message I got

Answer 8

I don't think I understand what there telling me to do heres the instructions

printing out mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss, let's tackle adding / slashes to the date's parts.

You might think to do something like:

print now.month, "/", now.day, "/", now.year

However, this would give you spaces between the slashes. Hence, the better solution is to use string concatenation (the + operator), covered in Unit 2.

As you'll see, it's not as simple as just using concatenation -- mainly because concatenation only works with strings.

When you extract information like now.year, you end up with an integer. To convert an integer to a string, you can use the str() function. For example, if a variable x had the value 4 and we wanted to convert that into "4", you could do str(x).

Answer 9

check this one also out:
import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()

print
print "Current date and time using str method of datetime object:"
print str(now)

print
print "Current date and time using instance attributes:"
print "Current year: %d" % now.year
print "Current month: %d" % now.month
print "Current day: %d" % now.day
print "Current hour: %d" % now.hour
print "Current minute: %d" % now.minute
print "Current second: %d" % now.second
print "Current microsecond: %d" % now.microsecond

print
print "Current date and time using strftime:"
print now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

Answer 10

They're just using now.day, now.minute, etc. to teach about combining multiple values in an output. You want to output a string so that you can control the formatting (no spaces). If you need to turn multiple numbers (a,b,c) into an output, first turn them into strings (str(a), str(b), str(c)) and then concatenate them with any other strings of symbols you need in the answer (str(a)+':'+str(b)+':'+str(c)).