Question

For simple formats its easy to come up with equivalents

PHP:

date("Y-m-d") === "2012-07-25";

Python:

date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") == "2012-07-25"

But what is the Python equivalent of

date("jS F Y") === "25th July 2012";

Answer 1

I’m afraid I think you’ll have to work the suffix out yourself:

>>> t = time.localtime()
>>> suffix = 'st' if t.tm_mday in [1,21,31] else 'nd' if t.tm_mday in [2, 22] else 'rd' if t.tm_mday in [3, 23] else 'th'
>>> time.strftime('%d%%s %B %Y', t) % suffix
'25th July 2012'

It’s a bit English-centric for a programming language feature, so you can see why they didn’t include it.

*Edited to add the “rd” suffix for 3rd and 23rd.