On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought I read some where that strptime() will pad 0's for day's for some > reason this isnt working for me and I'm wondering if i'm doing something > wrong. > >>>> from datetime import datetime >>>> dt = datetime.strptime('Apr 9 2013', '%b %d %Y') >>>> dt.day > 9 >>>> > > How can I get strptime to run 09? instead of 9 > > > --RB > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
dt.day is an integer: >>> from datetime import datetime >>> dt = datetime.strptime('Apr 9 2013', '%b %d %Y') >>> type(dt.day) <type 'int'> I think you are confusing strftime() with strptime(): >>> dt.strftime('%b %D %Y') 'Apr 04/09/13 2013' or if you just want a 0 padded string for the day, use string formatting: >>> s = '%02d' % dt.day >>> type(s) <type 'str'> >>> s '09' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list