Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'causing': 0.04; 'syntax': 0.04; 'subject:help': 0.08; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'wrote': 0.14; "'/'": 0.16; 'delimiters': 0.16; 'formatted': 0.16; 'from:addr:mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:python': 0.16; 'from:name:mrab': 0.16; 'line),': 0.16; 'message- id:@mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'messy': 0.16; 'printing.': 0.16; 'received:84.93': 0.16; 'received:84.93.230': 0.16; 'strftime': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; ':-)': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'community,': 0.19; 'thu,': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'putting': 0.22; 'separate': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'first,': 0.26; 'this:': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'skip:p 30': 0.29; 'strongly': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'getting': 0.31; 'easier': 0.31; 'lines': 0.31; 'url:python': 0.33; 'could': 0.34; 'received:84': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'doing': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'error.': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'url:library': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'either': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'complete': 0.62; 'dear': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'american': 0.66; 'header:Reply-To:1': 0.67; 'invalid': 0.68; 'line,': 0.68; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.71; "it'd": 0.84; 'nice,': 0.84; 'reply-to:addr:python.org': 0.84; '2013': 0.98 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=JsTI8qIC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:117 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:17 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=7AxPfEIvyrUA:10 a=ihvODaAuJD4A:10 a=OUOv7kDek9cA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=8AHkEIZyAAAA:8 a=kXPjS0m1utAA:10 a=v3ZZPjhaAAAA:8 a=CxjpaS-67VgKDugGmeUA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=BMLu5zkXfFwA:10 a=Kna09Q1u_EMA:10 X-AUTH: mrabarnett:2500 Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 16:37:06 +0100 From: MRAB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: help to code... References: <1F2E5209-2F0F-4DE2-88BC-DB9C2267B0F3@icloud.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: python-list@python.org List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 50 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1367509015 news.xs4all.nl 15922 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34968 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:44639 On 02/05/2013 16:26, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 02/05/2013 15:59, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:50 PM, leonardo selmi wrote: >>> dear python community, >>> >>> i wrote the following program: >>> >>> print str(current_month) + '/' + str(current_day) + '/' + str(current_year) >>> +' '+ >>> print str(current_hour) + str(current_minute) + str(current_second) >>> >>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> >>> how can i write the last two lines correctly? >> >> You're doing two separate print statements. Either join them into one >> (if you want it to be one line), or drop the last + on the first line, >> which is causing your syntax error. But there's an even easier way to >> do this: Use formatted printing. >> >> print("%d/%d/%d >> %d%d%d"%(current_month,current_day,current_year,current_hour,current_minute,current_second)) >> >> Or, since you're getting those straight from 'now': >> >> print("%d/%d/%d >> %d%d%d"%(now.month,now.day,now.year,now.hour,now.minute,now.second)) >> >> I strongly suspect that you want to put delimiters in the time, though >> (colons, perhaps?). It'd be really nice, by the way, if you'd avoid >> the messy American format date with the month first; put the year >> first and it's unambiguous! >> >> ChrisA >> > > Better IMHO is to use strftime > http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior > so the complete code could be > > from datetime import datetime > print(datetime.now().strftime('%m/%Y/%d %H %m %S')) > Except, of course, putting the year first, and using "%m" for the minutes: print(datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')) :-)