On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Unix's date command produces this output (example): > > Thu Apr 5 22:49:42 CEST 2012 > > I would like to produce the same output with Python, without calling > "date" externally. Before doing it I'd like to ask the list if anyone > has an existing solution for this.
From POSIX (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/date.html ): When no formatting operand is specified, the output in the POSIX locale shall be equivalent to specifying: date "+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y" Therefore: from time import strftime print strftime("%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y") But note that `date` is locale-sensitive; imitating that would be a bit more complicated. Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
