How to get current time in python and break up into year month day hour minute

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I would like to get the current time in Python and assign them into variables like year  month  day  hour  minute  How can this be done in Python 2 7

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you can use datetime module to get current Date and Time in Python 2 7  import datetime print datetime datetime now     Output     2015-05-06 14 44 14 369392

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The datetime module is your friend  import datetime now   datetime datetime now   print now year  now month  now day  now hour  now minute  now second    2015 5 6 8 53 40  You don t need separate variables  the attributes on the returned datetime object have all you need

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This is an older question  but I came up with a solution I thought others might like   def get current datetime as dict    n   datetime now   t   n timetuple   field names     year                   month                   day                   hour                   min                   sec                   weekday                   md                   yd   return dict zip field names  t     timetuple   can be zipped with another array  which creates labeled tuples  Cast that to a dictionary and the resultant product can be consumed with get current datetime as dict    year     This has a little more overhead than some of the other solutions on here  but I ve found it s so nice to be able to access named values for clartiy s sake in the code

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Three libraries for accessing and manipulating dates and times  namely datetime  arrow and pendulum  all make these items available in namedtuples whose elements are accessible either by name or index  Moreover  the items are accessible in precisely the same way   I suppose if I were more intelligent I wouldn t be surprised     gt  gt  gt  YEARS  MONTHS  DAYS  HOURS  MINUTES   range 5   gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  import arrow  gt  gt  gt  import pendulum  gt  gt  gt   datetime datetime now   timetuple   i  for i in  YEARS  MONTHS  DAYS  HOURS  MINUTES    2017  6  16  19  15   gt  gt  gt   arrow now   timetuple   i  for i in  YEARS  MONTHS  DAYS  HOURS  MINUTES    2017  6  16  19  15   gt  gt  gt   pendulum now   timetuple   i  for i in  YEARS  MONTHS  DAYS  HOURS  MINUTES    2017  6  16  19  16

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Here s a one-liner that comes in just under the 80 char line max   import time year  month  day  hour  min   map int  time strftime   Y  m  d  H  M   split

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You can use gmtime  from time import gmtime  detailed time   gmtime     returns a struct time object for current time  year   detailed time tm year month   detailed time tm mon day   detailed time tm mday hour   detailed time tm hour minute   detailed time tm min   Note  A time stamp can be passed to gmtime  default is current time as  returned by time    eg  gmtime 1521174681    See struct time

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The datetime answer by tzaman is much cleaner  but you can do it with the original python time module   import time strings   time strftime   Y  m  d  H  M  S   t   strings split      numbers     int x  for x in t   print numbers   Output    2016  3  11  8  29  47

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import time year   time strftime   Y     or   y

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By unpacking timetuple of datetime object  you should get what you want   from datetime import datetime  n   datetime now   t   n timetuple   y  m  d  h  min  sec  wd  yd  i   t

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Let s see how to get and print day month year in python from current time   import datetime  now   datetime datetime now   year      02d   format now year  month      02d   format now month  day      02d   format now day  hour      02d   format now hour  minute      02d   format now minute  day month year      -  -    format year  month  day   print  day month year      day month year    result   day month year  2019-03-26

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For python 3   import datetime now   datetime datetime now   print now year  now month  now day  now hour  now minute  now second

[python] How to get current time in python and break up into year, month, day, hour, minute?

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