On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 6:34 AM Michael F. Stemper <michael.stem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have some code that generates a time-stamp as follows: > > from datetime import datetime > tt = datetime.now() > timestamp = "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d" % \ > (tt.year, tt.month, tt.day, tt.hour, tt.minute) > > I later realized that I could have written it as: > > from datetime import datetime > from time import strftime > timestamp = datetime.now().strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" ) > > The first seems a little clunky with its accessing of multiple > attributes, but the second has an additional import. Is there > any reason to prefer one over the other? >
What's the second import doing though? You never use strftime. I'd go with the second one, but with just a single import. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
