Python: Generate a date and time as a string

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Write a Python program to generate a date and time as a string.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

# Import the datetime module
import datetime
# Get the current date and time
now = datetime.datetime.now()
# Convert the current date and time into a formatted string
# Date and time in string format: 2016-11-05 11:24:24 PM
datestr = "# In string: " + now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %p") + "\n"
# Print an empty line
print()
# Print the formatted string containing the current date and time
print(datestr)
# Print an empty line
print()

Output:

# In string: 2017-05-08 14:24:37 PM

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

• The code imports the "datetime" module.
• It gets the current date and time using "datetime.datetime.now()" function and assigns it to the variable 'now'.
• It converts the current date and time into a formatted string using the "strftime()" method, which formats a "datetime" object as a string according to the given format string. In this case, it formats the date and time as "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS AM/PM" format.
• It constructs a string 'datestr' containing the formatted date and time preceded by a note, and assigns it to 'datestr'.
• It prints the string 'datestr', which contains the formatted current date and time.

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