Help %A in time.strftime(%A)

[Ben Finney]

jolly <jemnader at gmail.com> writes:

> import time
> 
> today = time.localtime(time.time())
> theDate = time.strftime("%A %B %d", today)
> [...]
> 
> can someone explain to me the %A and the %B?

Your first resort for more information about the standard library
should be the online standard library reference
<URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/>.

Searching that reference, you'll find the documentation for the time
module <URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html> and
specifically the time.strftime function
<URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html#l2h-2816> which
describes the format codes it expects.

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Ben Finney