How to get the current time in Python

Question

What is the module/method used to get the current time?

Answer 1

Use:

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

And just the time:

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

See the documentation for more information.

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

>>> from datetime import datetime 

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

Answer 2

You can use time.strftime():

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