On Feb 10, 2016 6:56 AM, "Anthony Papillion" <anth...@cajuntechie.org> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hello Everyone, > > I am using datetime.now() to create a unique version of a filename. > When the final file is named, it will look something like: > > myfile-2015-02-09-19-08-45-4223 >
You can easily do this(retrieving the tokens) using re module. In [33]: mat = re.search(r'(\S+)-(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})', 'myfi-le-2015-02-09-19-08-45-4223') In [34]: mat Out[34]: <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 32), match='myfi-le-2015-02-09-19-08-45-4223'> In [35]: mat.groups() Out[35]: ('myfi-le', '2015', '02', '09', '19', '08', '45', '4223') In [36]: mat = re.search(r'(\S+)-(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})', 'myfile-2015-02-09-19-08-45-4223') In [37]: mat Out[37]: <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 31), match='myfile-2015-02-09-19-08-45-4223'> In [38]: mat.groups() Out[38]: ('myfile', '2015', '02', '09', '19', '08', '45', '4223') if you don't want fiddle with regex you can use parse module( https://github.com/r1chardj0n3s/parse). but why use an external library when stdlib already provides it? :) Regards Srinivas Devaki Junior (3rd yr) student at Indian School of Mines,(IIT Dhanbad) Computer Science and Engineering Department ph: +91 9491 383 249 telegram_id: @eightnoteight -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list