In <[email protected]> Rodrick Brown
<[email protected]> writes:
> I thought I read some where that strptime() will pad 0's for day's for some
> reason this isnt working for me and I'm wondering if i'm doing something
> wrong.
> >>> from datetime import datetime
> >>> dt = datetime.strptime('Apr 9 2013', '%b %d %Y')
> >>> dt.day
> 9
> How can I get strptime to run 09? instead of 9
dt.day is just an integer. If you want to print it with zero padding,
use a format string:
>>> n = 9
>>> print n
9
>>> print '%02d' % n
09
or for python 3:
>>> print("{0:02d}".format(n))
09
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