[Tutor] help regarding string

[Kent Johnson]

anil maran wrote:
> 
>     'datetime.datetime' object has no attribute 'split'
> 
> 
> thisis the error i get

Ah, then your data is not a string, it is a datetime.datetime object. 
You can format it using datetime.datetime.strftime():
In [1]: import datetime

In [2]: d=datetime.datetime.now()

In [3]: d
Out[3]: datetime.datetime(2006, 7, 3, 6, 24, 2, 93000)

In [4]: print d
2006-07-03 06:24:02.093000

In [5]: d.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
Out[5]: '2006-07-03 06:24:02'

Kent

> */Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>/* wrote:
> 
>     anil maran wrote:
>      > please help me format this string from
>      > input : 2006-06-16 16:23:27.703000 to
>      > output: 2006-06-16 16:23:27
>      >
>      > or 2006-06-16 4:23:27 PM
> 
>     str.split() can extract everything up to the first period:
>     In [4]: '2006-06-16 16:23:27.703000'.split('.')[0]
>     Out[4]: '2006-06-16 16:23:27'
> 
>     Kent
> 
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