Formatting time output

- In the previous example…we saw how to retrieve…basic date and time information in Python.…So now we'll take a look at how to format that information…using a set of predefined string control codes.…In your editor,…open up the formatting_start file…and in this example file…you can see I've already set up the import statement…to import the datetime class,…so you don't need to do that.…Python provides a standard set of string formatting codes…that you can use in a variety of scenarios.…

And if you've ever done any programming in C or a C++…and you've used the standard C library,…then these codes might look familiar to you.…If not, they're pretty easy to understand…once you've seen them.…So let's start…with a familiar piece of code…to get the current date and time.…So I'll write now = datetime.now…and we saw this in the previous example.…So now that I've got the current date and time,…let's take a look at some of the options I have available…to me to format the output.…

To format date information…you use the stirftime function…