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Reputation: 83

Date formatting to month uppercase

I managed to get date by

import datetime
getDate = datetime.date.today()
print(getDate.strftime("%Y-%B-%d"))

Output is 2018-June-23

But I want to format output like this: 2018-JUNE-23 (month is uppercase)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 19505

Answers (3)

c0deManiac
c0deManiac

Reputation: 95

To add on to the answer by wim, in order to make it cross-platform, an additional wrapper is the most accurate way to do this on all platforms.

An example wrapper for Python 3+ would be using format strings:

import datetime

class dWrapper:
    def __init__(self, date):
        self.date = date

    def __format__(self, spec):
        caps = False
        if '^' in spec:
            caps = True
            spec = spec.replace('^', '')
        out = self.date.strftime(spec)
        if caps:
            out = out.upper()
        return out

    def __getattr__(self, key):
        return getattr(self.date, key)

def parse(s, d):
    return s.format(dWrapper(d))

d = datetime.datetime.now()
print(parse("To Upper doesn't work always {0:%d} of {0:%^B}, year {0:%Y}", d))

Upvotes: -2

Gayan Sampath
Gayan Sampath

Reputation: 183

Just use .upper():

print(getDate.strftime("%Y-%B-%d").upper())

Upvotes: 9

wim
wim

Reputation: 363243

To do this directly in the format string, prepend a carrot on the month (^):

>>> getDate = datetime.date.today()
>>> print(getDate.strftime("%Y-%^B-%d"))
2018-JUNE-22

Note: This works if you have the glibc extensions (or equivalent features) available on your platform strftime. You can check for that by calling man strftime. If it's not working on your platform, or you need to guarantee the behaviour cross-platform, then prefer to just make an extra function call here by using str.upper as shown in the other answer.

Upvotes: 19

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