How do I get the current time?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4155...

Accepted answer links:
[datetime]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dateti...
[datetime]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dateti...

Answer 2 links:
[time.strftime()]: http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/time....

Answer 3 links:
[strftime]: https://docs.python.org/library/datetime...

Answer 4 links:
[Harley's answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4155...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 3980

Use datetime:

>>> import datetime
>>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> now
datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 6, 15, 8, 24, 78915)
>>> print(now)
2009-01-06 15:08:24.789150

For just the clock time without the date:

>>> now.time()
datetime.time(15, 8, 24, 78915)
>>> print(now.time())
15:08:24.789150

To save typing, you can import the datetime object from the datetime module:

>>> from datetime import datetime

Then remove the prefix datetime. from all of the above.

ANSWER 2

Score 1230

Use time.strftime():

>>> from time import gmtime, strftime
>>> strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", gmtime())
'2009-01-05 22:14:39'

ANSWER 3

Score 883

from datetime import datetime
datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

Example output: '2013-09-18 11:16:32'

See list of strftime directives.

ANSWER 4

Score 539

Similar to Harley's answer, but use the str() function for a quick-n-dirty, slightly more human readable format:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> str(datetime.now())
'2011-05-03 17:45:35.177000'