Python strftime - date without leading 0

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When using Python strftime  is there a way to remove the first 0 of the date if it s before the 10th  ie  so 01 is 1  Can t find a  thingy for that   Thanks

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Because Python really just calls the C language strftime(3) function on your platform, it might be that there are format characters you could use to control the leading zero; try man strftime and take a look. But, of course, the result will not be portable, as the Python manual will remind you. :-)

I would try using a new-style datetime object instead, which has attributes like t.year and t.month and t.day, and put those through the normal, high-powered formatting of the % operator, which does support control of leading zeros. See http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html for details. Better yet, use the "".format() operator if your Python has it and be even more modern; it has lots of format options for numbers as well. See: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#string-formatting.

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Take a look at - bellow    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime now   strftime   d- b- Y    gt  gt  gt   08-Oct-2011   gt  gt  gt  datetime now   strftime   -d- b- Y    gt  gt  gt   8-Oct-2011   gt  gt  gt  today   datetime date today    gt  gt  gt  today strftime   d- b- Y    gt  gt  gt  print today

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using  for example    -d  is not portable even between different versions of the same OS  A better solution would be to extract the date components individually  and choose between date specific formatting operators and date attribute access for each component   e   datetime date 2014  1  6    date  A   date day   date  B  date year   format date e

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Python 3 6   from datetime import date today   date today   text    quot Today it is  quot    today strftime f quot  A  B  today day    Y quot

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We can do this sort of thing with the advent of the format method since python2 6    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt    dt year   dt month   dt day   format dt   datetime datetime now     2013 4 19    Though perhaps beyond the scope of the original question  for more interesting formats  you can do stuff like    gt  gt  gt    dt  A   dt  B   dt day    dt year   format dt datetime datetime now     Wednesday December 3  2014    And as of python3 6  this can be expressed as an inline formatted string   Python 3 6 0a2  v3 6 0a2 378893423552  Jun 13 2016  14 44 21    GCC 4 2 1  Apple Inc  build 5666   dot 3   on darwin Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  dt   datetime datetime now    gt  gt  gt  f  dt  A   dt  B   dt day    dt year    Monday August 29  2016

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Here is the documentation of the modifiers supported by strftime   in the GNU C library   Like people said before  it might not be portable   Of interest to you might be     e instead of  d will replace leading zero in day of month with a space   It works on my Python  on Linux   I don t know if it will work on yours

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For  d you can convert to integer using int   then it ll automatically remove leading 0 and becomes integer  You can then convert back to string using str

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On Windows  add a      as in    m   d  Y   I  M  S  p   For reference  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library fe06s4ak aspx

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gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  d   datetime datetime now    gt  gt  gt  d strftime  X d X m  Y   replace  X0   X   replace  X       5 5 2011

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import datetime now   datetime datetime now   print now strftime   b   d

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Old question  but  l  lower-case L  worked for me in strftime  this may not work for everyone  though  as it s not listed in the Python documentation I found

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I am late  but a simple list slicing will do the work today date   date today   strftime   d  b  Y   if today date 0      0       today date   today date 1

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Some platforms may support width and precision specification between   and the letter  such as  d  for day of month   according to http   docs python org library time html -- but it s definitely a non-portable solution  e g  doesn t work on my Mac -    Maybe you can use a string replace  or RE  for really nasty format  after the strftime to remedy that  e g     gt  gt  gt  y  2009  5  7  17  17  17  3  127  1   gt  gt  gt  time strftime   Y  m  d   y   2009 05 07   gt  gt  gt  time strftime   Y  m  d   y  replace   0         2009 5 7

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I find the Django template date formatting filter to be quick and easy  It strips out leading zeros  If you don t mind importing the Django module  check it out   http   docs djangoproject com en dev ref templates builtins  date  from django template defaultfilters import date as django date filter print django date filter mydate   P  D M j  Y

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simply use replace like this    datetime date now    strftime   Y  m  d   replace   0         it will output    2017 7 21

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Actually I had the same problem and I realized that  if you add a hyphen between the   and the letter  you can remove the leading zero   For example  Y  -m  -d   This only works on Unix  Linux  OS X   not Windows  including Cygwin    On Windows  you would use    e g   Y   m   d

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quite late to the party but  -d works on my end   datetime now   strftime   B  -d   Y   produces something like  November 5  2014   cheers

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Based on Alex s method  this will work for both the start-of-string and after-spaces cases   re sub   0    lt    0        01 January 2000 08 00am     I like this better than  format or  -d because this is cross-platform and allows me to keep using strftime  to get things like  November  and  Monday

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