How to get min seconds and milliseconds from datetime now in python

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gt  gt  gt  a   str datetime now     gt  gt  gt  a  2012-03-22 11 16 11 343000    I need to get a string like that   16 11 34    Should be as compact as possible    Or should I use time   instead  How do I get it

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Sorry to open an old thread but I m posting just in case it helps someone  This seems to be the easiest way to do this in Python 3     from datetime import datetime  Date   str datetime now     10  Hour   str datetime now    11 13  Minute   str datetime now    14 16  Second   str datetime now    17 19  Millisecond   str datetime now    20     If you need the values as a number just cast them as an int e g  Hour   int str datetime now    11 13

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if you want your datetime now   precise till the minute   you can use  datetime strptime datetime now   strftime   Y- m- d  H  M      Y- m- d  H  M     similarly for hour it will be   datetime strptime datetime now   strftime   Y- m- d  H      Y- m- d  H     It is kind of a hack  if someone has a better solution  I am all ears

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This solution is very similar to that provided by  gdw2   only that the string formatting is correctly done to match what you asked for -  Should be as compact as possible    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  a   datetime datetime now    gt  gt  gt    s  s  s     a minute  a second  str a microsecond   2    31 45 57

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What about   datetime now   strftime   M  S  f    -4   I m not sure what you mean by  Milliseconds only 2 digits   but this should keep it to 2 decimal places   There may be a more elegant way by manipulating the strftime format string to cut down on the precision as well -- I m not completely sure   EDIT  If the  f modifier doesn t work for you  you can try something like   now datetime now   string i want    02d  02d  d   now minute now second now microsecond    -4    Again  I m assuming you just want to truncate the precision

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import datetime from datetime  now   datetime now    print   0 2d  0 2d  0 2d     now hour  now minute  now second    You can do the same with day  amp  month etc

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time second helps a lot put that at the top of your python

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Another similar solution    gt  gt  gt  a datetime now    gt  gt  gt    s  s  s     a hour  a minute  a microsecond   14 28 971209    Yes  I know I didn t get the string formatting perfect

[python] How to get min, seconds and milliseconds from datetime.now() in python?

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