Convert datetime object to a String of date only in Python

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I see a lot on converting a date string to an datetime object in Python  but I want to go the other way  I ve got   datetime datetime 2012  2  23  0  0    and I would like to convert it to string like  2 23 2012

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If you want the time as well  just go with  datetime datetime now     str       Prints 2019-07-11 19 36 31 118766 in console for me

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It is possible to convert a datetime object into a string by working directly with the components of the datetime object   from datetime import date    myDate   date today        print myDate  would output 2017-05-23 because that is today  reassign the myDate variable to myDate   myDate month   then you could print myDate month  and you would get 5 as an integer dateStr   str myDate month         str myDate day          str myDate year        myDate month is equal to 5 as an integer  i use str   to change it to a    string I add   the     so now I have  5   then myDate day is 23 as   an integer i change it to a string with str   and it is added to the  5        to get  5 23  and then I add another     now we have  5 23   next is the    year which is 2017 as an integer  I use the function str   to change it to    a string and add it to the rest of the string   Now we have  5 23 2017  as    a string  The final line prints the string   print dateStr      Output --  5 23 2017

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You could use simple string formatting methods    gt  gt  gt  dt   datetime datetime 2012  2  23  0  0   gt  gt  gt    0 month   0 day   0 year   format dt   2 23 2012   gt  gt  gt    s  s  s     dt month  dt day  dt year   2 23 2012

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date and datetime objects  and time as well  support a mini-language to specify output  and there are two ways to access it   direct method call  dt strftime  format here   format method  python 2 6       format here   format dt  f-strings  python 3 6    f  dt format here    So your example could look like   dt strftime  The date is  b  d   Y    The date is    b  d   Y   format dt  f The date is  dt  b  d   Y    In all three cases the output is   The date is Feb 23  2012  For completeness  sake  you can also directly access the attributes of the object  but then you only get the numbers   The date is  s  s  s     dt month  dt day  dt year    The date is 02 23 2012  The time taken to learn the mini-language is worth it   For reference  here are the codes used in the mini-language    a  Weekday as locale   s abbreviated name   A  Weekday as locale   s full name   w  Weekday as a decimal number  where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday   d  Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number   b  Month as locale   s abbreviated name   B  Month as locale   s full name   m  Month as a zero-padded decimal number   01       12  y  Year without century as a zero-padded decimal number    00       99  Y  Year with century as a decimal number   1970  1988  2001  2013  H  Hour  24-hour clock  as a zero-padded decimal number    00       23  I  Hour  12-hour clock  as a zero-padded decimal number    01       12  p  Locale   s equivalent of either AM or PM   M  Minute as a zero-padded decimal number      00       59  S  Second as a zero-padded decimal number      00       59  f  Microsecond as a decimal number  zero-padded on the left    000000       999999  z  UTC offset in the form  HHMM or -HHMM   empty if naive    0000  -0400   1030  Z  Time zone name       empty if naive   UTC  EST  CST  j  Day of the year as a zero-padded decimal number     001       366  U  Week number of the year  Sunday is the first  as a zero padded decimal number   W  Week number of the year  Monday is first  as a decimal number   c  Locale   s appropriate date and time representation   x  Locale   s appropriate date representation   X  Locale   s appropriate time representation      A literal     character

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You can convert datetime to string   published at        format self published at

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The sexiest version by far is with format strings  from datetime import datetime  print f  datetime today    Y- m- d

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You can use strftime to help you format your date   E g    import datetime t   datetime datetime 2012  2  23  0  0  t strftime   m  d  Y     will yield    02 23 2012    More information about formatting see here

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String concatenation  str join  can be used to build the string   d   datetime now       join str x  for x in  d month  d day  d year    3 7 2016

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type-specific formatting can be used as well   t   datetime datetime 2012  2  23  0  0      m  d  Y   format t    Output    02 23 2012

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If you looking for a simple way of datetime to string conversion and can omit the format  You can convert datetime object to str and then use array slicing   In  1   from datetime import datetime  In  2   now   datetime now    In  3   str now  Out 3    2019-04-26 18 03 50 941332   In  5   str now   10  Out 5    2019-04-26   In  6   str now   19  Out 6    2019-04-26 18 03 50    But note the following thing  If other solutions will rise an AttributeError when the variable is None in this case you will receive a  None  string   In  9   str None   19  Out 9    None

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Another option   import datetime now datetime datetime now   now isoformat     ouptut -- gt   2016-03-09T08 18 20 860968

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