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huzefausama
huzefausama

Reputation: 443

How to get the curent date with python

I have made a web-scraper with python 3 and bs4. I want the current date so that i can use it as a file name for the scraped website.

Here is my code:

import bs4
import requests
import sys
import re 
import unicodedata
import os

filename = #Current date#

filename=r"C:\Python\Scripts\Webscrapers\Output\\" +filename+ ".txt"
url = "https://www.wikipedia.org/Example_Article/"
res = requests.get(url)
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, "lxml")

file = open(filename , 'wb')
for i in soup.select("p"):
    f=i.text
    file.write(unicodedata.normalize('NFD', re.sub("[\(\[].*?[\)\]]", "", f)).encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
    file.write(unicodedata.normalize('NFD', re.sub("[\(\[].*?[\)\]]", "", os.linesep)).encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
    file.write(unicodedata.normalize('NFD', re.sub("[\(\[].*?[\)\]]", "", os.linesep)).encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
file.close()

After hours of googling i came up with this:

>>> import datetime
>>> print (datetime.datetime.today()) 
2020-05-14 11:49:55.695210
>>>

But, I want something like this: 14-May-2020 Is it possible if so, then please help me

I just want to know the current date as a string

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

user13517564
user13517564

Reputation:

Use the strftime function from the time module:

import time
time.strftime("%d-%B-%Y", time.localtime())

'14-May-2020'

Upvotes: 2

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