Get System Date?

[Alex Martelli]

Dustan <DustanGroups at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to get the system date on a Windows XP machine? Most
> Convenient would to retrieve YYYY, MM, and DD as seperate variables.
> 
> When I say system date, I'm thinking of the small clock in the
> lower-right hand corner, which has date as well as time, but if there's
> another clock that Python supports, it works for me as long as it's
> somewhat accurate.

>>> import datetime
>>> x=datetime.date.today()
>>> yyyy, mm, dd = x.year, x.month, x.day
>>> print yyyy
2006
>>> print mm
2
>>> print dd
5
>>> 

As you see, these are integers (so, for example, mm is not '02' but just
2).  Pretty easy to make them into strings, of course, if you want.


Alex