How do I turn a python datetime into a string with readable format date

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t   e  updated parsed   dt   datetime datetime t 0  t 1  t 2  t 3  t 4  t 5  t 6  print dt  gt  gt  gt 2010-01-28 08 39 49 000003   How do I turn that into a string     January 28  2010

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very old question  i know  but with the new f-strings  starting from python 3 6  there are fresh options  so here for completeness   from datetime import datetime  dt   datetime now      str format strg       B  d   Y   format dt  print strg     July 22  2017    datetime strftime strg   dt strftime   B  d   Y   print strg     July 22  2017    f-strings in python  gt   3 6 strg   f  dt  B  d   Y   print strg     July 22  2017   strftime   and strptime   Behavior explains what the format specifiers mean

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Python datetime object has a method attribute  which prints in readable format    gt  gt  gt  a   datetime now    gt  gt  gt  a ctime    Mon May 21 18 35 18 2018   gt  gt  gt

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Read strfrtime from the official docs

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Here is how you can accomplish the same using python s general formatting function      gt  gt  gt from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt     B  d   Y   format datetime now      The formatting characters used here are the same as those used by strftime  Don t miss the leading    in the format specifier   Using format   instead of strftime   in most cases can make the code more readable  easier to write and consistent with the way formatted output is generated      gt  gt  gt     today s date is     B  d   Y   format  Andre   datetime now      Compare the above with the following strftime   alternative      gt  gt  gt     today s date is     format  Andre   datetime now   strftime   B  d   Y      Moreover  the following is not going to work      gt  gt  gt datetime now   strftime   s  B  d   Y     Andre   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt pyshell 11 gt    line 1  in  lt module gt      datetime now   strftime   s  B  d   Y     Andre   TypeError  not enough arguments for format string   And so on

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Using f-strings  in Python 3 6    from datetime import datetime  date string   f  datetime now    Y- m- d  H  M  S z

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This is for format the date      def format date day  month  year                betekent  plaats hier stringvoorstelling van volgend argument          return            format day  month  year

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The datetime class has a method strftime  The Python docs documents the different formats it accepts    Python 2  strftime   Behavior Python 3  strftime   Behavior   For this specific example  it would look something like   my datetime strftime   B  d   Y

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