python - How to convert a time to a string

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I am using the date time lib to get the current date. After obtaining the current date I need to convert the obtained date to in to a string format. Any help is appriciated 

from datetime import date
today=date.today()
print today
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So is it date or time you want? - The Communist Duck
In the future, please highlight your code snippet in the editor and type Ctrl+K or click the {} button to format it. - wkl
What's wrong with what you have? print converts the value to a string as part of printing it. What more do you want? - S.Lott

3 Answers

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You can use today.strftime(format). format will be a string as described here http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime . Example:

from datetime import date
today = date.today()
today.strftime("%x")
#>>> '01/31/11'
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datetime.strftime allows you to format a datetime however you want

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stringDate = str(today)

If that's what you want.