On 30/03/18 03:48, Pat Martin wrote:
> the "right" way to do it in python?
More or less, a couple of comments below...
> def Main():
Python function names begin with a lowercase letter by convention.
> """Run if run as a program."""
> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
...
>
> now = datetime.datetime.now()
> slug = args.title.replace(" ", "-").lower()
>
> with open("{}.md".format(slug), 'w') as f:
> f.write("Title: {}\n".format(args.title))
> f.write("Date: {}-{}-{} {}:{}\n".format(now.year,
> now.month,
> now.day,
> now.hour,
> now.minute))
Formatting of dates and times is usually done using
the time.strftime function which is specifically
designed for that. It might be worth taking a peek
at the docs on that one. You can call it directly
on a datetime object - 'now' in your case:
fmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M\n"
f.write(now.strftime(fmt))
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