On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Kyle Shannon <k...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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'
Whoops, wrong cut/paste, I meant: >>> dt.strftime('%b %d %Y') 'Apr 09 2013' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list