How to get current time in python and break up into year, month, day, hour, minute?

Question

I would like to get the current time in Python and assign them into variables like year, month, day, hour, minute. How can this be done in Python 2.7?

Answer 1

The datetime module is your friend:

import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() print(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second) # 2015 5 6 8 53 40 

You don't need separate variables, the attributes on the returned datetime object have all you need.

Answer 2

Here's a one-liner that comes in just under the 80 char line max.

import time year, month, day, hour, min = map(int, time.strftime("%Y %m %d %H %M").split())