Look at the types of those properties:
In [1]: import datetime
In [2]: d = datetime.date.today()
In [3]: type(d.month)
Out[3]: <type 'int'>
In [4]: type(d.day)
Out[4]: <type 'int'>
Both are integers. So there is no automatic way to do what you want. So in the narrow sense, the answer to your question is no.
If you want leading zeroes, you'll have to format them one way or another. For that you have several options:
In [5]: '{:02d}'.format(d.month)
Out[5]: '03'
In [6]: '%02d' % d.month
Out[6]: '03'
In [7]: d.strftime('%m')
Out[7]: '03'
In [8]: f'{d.month:02d}'
Out[8]: '03'
you can use a string formatter to pad any integer with zeros. It acts just like C's printf
.
>>> d = datetime.date.today()
>>> '%02d' % d.month
'03'
Updated for py36: Use f-strings! For general int
s you can use the d
formatter and explicitly tell it to pad with zeros:
>>> d = datetime.date.today()
>>> f"{d.month:02d}"
'07'
But datetime
s are special and come with special formatters that are already zero padded:
>>> f"{d:%d}" # the day
'01'
>>> f"{d:%m}" # the month
'07'
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