How to extract hours and minutes from a datetime.datetime object?

Question

I am required to extract the time of the day from the datetime.datetime object returned by the created_at attribute, but how can I do that?

This is my code for getting the datetime.datetime object.

from datetime import * import tweepy  consumer_key = '' consumer_secret = '' access_token = '' access_secret = '' auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret) api = tweepy.API(auth) tweets = tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(limit = 2) t1 = datetime.strptime('Wed Jun 01 12:53:42 +0000 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y') for tweet in tweets:    print (tweet.created_at - t1)    t1 = tweet.created_at 

I need to only extract the hour and minutes from t1.

Answer 1

I don't know how you want to format it, but you can do:

print("Created at %s:%s" % (t1.hour, t1.minute)) 

for example.

Answer 2

If the time is 11:03, then afrendeiro's answer will print 11:3.

You could zero-pad the minutes:

"Created at {:d}:{:02d}".format(tdate.hour, tdate.minute) 

Or go another way and use tdate.time() and only take the hour/minute part:

str(tdate.time())[0:5]