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Fixed; not elegant, but if interested...
date2= time.localtime(time.time())

year = repr(date2[0])
month= repr(date2[1])
day = repr(date2[2])
hour = repr(date2[3])
min = repr(date2[4])
sec = repr(date2[5])

f = year + month + day
b = hour+ min+ sec

os.system (r"pkzip25 -add blah"+ f + r"_" + b +r".zip data_in.dat")

to get this file: blahyyyymmss_hhmmss.zip
although i am not guaranteed to get 2 spots if the integer value is less
than 10.


mike milliger wrote:

> I read the documentation in the Python Reference Library (6.3) on time
> access and conversions and chapter 8 in programming python, yet I can't
> figure out if i need ( or how to use) a tuple to format the return from
> localtime(). i get a string now (wed jun 10 1999 xx:xx:xx) but i need
> to format it to yyyymmdd_hhmmss. Is there any switch ( %) or function
> that can be useful? Any help is appreciated.
> --mike
Fixed; not elegant, but if interested... [ In reply to ]
>>> strftime("%y%m%d_%H%M%S",localtime(time()))
'990610_140535'



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--Darrell