getting system date

[Tim Heaney]

"Psybar Phreak" <psybar_phreak at yahoo.com> writes:

> what type is that result?
> 
> i mean - do i use %s, %i ?

It's a string. You can just try it and see.

$ python -c 'import time; date = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"); print "%s" % date'
2003-05-10
$ python -c 'import time; date = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"); print "%i" % date'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: an integer is required

Tim