datetime.strptime() not padding 0's

[Kyle Shannon]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Kyle Shannon <kyle at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought I read some where that strptime() will pad 0's for day's for some
>> reason this isnt working for me and I'm wondering if i'm doing something
>> wrong.
>>
>>>>> from datetime import datetime
>>>>> dt = datetime.strptime('Apr 9 2013', '%b %d %Y')
>>>>> dt.day
>> 9
>>>>>
>>
>> How can I get strptime to run 09? instead of 9
>>
>>
>> --RB
>>
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>
> dt.day is an integer:
>
>>>> from datetime import datetime
>>>> dt = datetime.strptime('Apr 9 2013', '%b %d %Y')
>>>> type(dt.day)
> <type 'int'>
>
> I think you are confusing strftime() with strptime():
>
>>>> dt.strftime('%b %D %Y')
> 'Apr 04/09/13 2013'
>
> or if you just want a 0 padded string for the day, use string formatting:
>
>>>> s = '%02d' % dt.day
>>>> type(s)
> <type 'str'>
>>>> s
> '09'


Whoops, wrong cut/paste, I meant:

>>> dt.strftime('%b %d %Y')
'Apr 09 2013'