On 03May2017 00:01, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On 02/05/17 19:09, Michael C wrote:
1. How to name the file with time stamp. e.g. 05012017.png and so forth.
And so forth? I assume you mean
MMDDYYYY.png format?
You should read about the strftime function in the time
(and datetime) module. Other functions thee will find
the current date/time for you. Thee are examples on the
documentation pages but if you get stuck come back
with specific questioons.
Further to this, I would also advocate that you consider writing the timestamp
from largest unit to smallest unit, like an ISO8601 timestamp, which typically
looks like:
YYYYMMDD.png
See:
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
This has the advantage that a lexical sort (as in a typical directory listing
or file glob) automatically arranges names in date order.
I'd also remark that the USA centric format (MMDDYYYY) that Alan inferred is
particularly unfortunate in that (a) the rest of the world generally use
DDMMYYYY so that the units come in increasing size and (b) doesn't sort very
nicely at all. Of course, you might have meant 5th December 2017 above, so who
knows? But the very ambiguity makes this one to avoid.
For numeric timestamps like yours I only ever use YYYYMMDD (or the obvious
variants like YYYY-MM-DD etc). If I use another, I make the month a word (lousy
for sorting and parsing, but clear to the human reader); I only do that in
prose, not in filenames.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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