How to get current time in python and break up int

Question

I would like to get the current time in Python and assign them into variables like year, month, day, hour, minute. How can this be done in Python 2.7?

Answer 1

Three libraries for accessing and manipulating dates and times, namely datetime, arrow and pendulum, all make these items available in namedtuples whose elements are accessible either by name or index. Moreover, the items are accessible in precisely the same way. (I suppose if I were more intelligent I wouldn't be surprised.)

>>> YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES = range(5)
>>> import datetime
>>> import arrow
>>> import pendulum
>>> [datetime.datetime.now().timetuple()[i] for i in [YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES]]
[2017, 6, 16, 19, 15]
>>> [arrow.now().timetuple()[i] for i in [YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES]]
[2017, 6, 16, 19, 15]
>>> [pendulum.now().timetuple()[i] for i in [YEARS, MONTHS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES]]
[2017, 6, 16, 19, 16]

Answer 2

For python 3

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
print(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second)

Answer 3

You can use gmtime

from time import gmtime

detailed_time = gmtime() 
#returns a struct_time object for current time

year = detailed_time.tm_year
month = detailed_time.tm_mon
day = detailed_time.tm_mday
hour = detailed_time.tm_hour
minute = detailed_time.tm_min

Note: A time stamp can be passed to gmtime, default is current time as returned by time()

eg.
gmtime(1521174681)

See struct_time

Answer 4

The datetime module is your friend:

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
print now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second
# 2015 5 6 8 53 40

You don't need separate variables, the attributes on the returned datetime object have all you need.

Answer 5

Here's a one-liner that comes in just under the 80 char line max.

import time
year, month, day, hour, minute = time.strftime("%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M").split(',')

Answer 6

By unpacking timetuple of datetime object, you should get what you want:

from datetime import datetime

n = datetime.now()
t = n.timetuple()
y, m, d, h, min, sec, wd, yd, i = t