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How to create a file name with the current date & time in Python?

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How to create a file name with the current date & time in Python?

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    1. This answer was edited.

      While not using datetime, this solves your problem (answers your question) of getting a string with the current time and date format you specify:

      import time
timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
print timestr

      yields:

      20120515-155045
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    2. This answer was edited.

      This one is much more human readable.

      from datetime import datetime

datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%m_%d-%I_%M_%S_%p")

      '2020_08_12-03_29_22_AM'
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    3. This prints in an easy to read format –

      <span>import</span> datetime

time_now  = datetime.datetime.now().strftime(<span>'%m_%d_%Y_%H_%M_%S'</span>) 

<span>print</span>(time_now)

      Output: 02_03_2021_22_44_50

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