Help %A in time.strftime(%A)

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:59:25 -0300, jolly <jemnader at gmail.com> escribió:

> I'm following a tutorial on Python and I came across this in one of
> the examples.
>
> import time
>
> today = time.localtime(time.time())
> theDate = time.strftime("%A %B %d", today)
>
> print today
> print theDate
>
>
> Result:
>
>
> (2007, 12, 20, 9, 48, 15, 3, 354, 1)
> Thursday December 20
>
>
> can someone explain to me the %A and the %B?

The format is documented in the Library Reference, at  
<http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html#l2h-2816>
%A is Locale's full weekday name (Thursday in your example)
%B is Locale's full month name (December in your example)

If you want to see how all other formats work:

import time
import string

now = time.localtime()
for char in string.ascii_letters:
     fmt = "%"+char
     try:
         result = time.strftime(fmt, now)
     except:
         pass
     else:
         if result:
             print "%s\t%s" % (fmt, result)

This is my output:

%a      Wed
%b      Dec
%c      12/19/07 22:31:40
%d      19
%j      353
%m      12
%p      PM
%w      3
%x      12/19/07
%y      07
%z      Hora est. de Sudamérica E.
%A      Wednesday
%B      December
%H      22
%I      10
%M      31
%S      40
%U      50
%W      51
%X      22:31:40
%Y      2007
%Z      Hora est. de Sudamérica E.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina