python - How to convert a time to a string

Question

I am using the date time lib to get the current date. After obtaining the current date I need to convert the obtained date to in to a string format. Any help is appriciated

from datetime import date
today=date.today()
print today

Answer 1

You can use today.strftime(format). format will be a string as described here http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime . Example:

from datetime import date
today = date.today()
today.strftime("%x")
#>>> '01/31/11'