Question

How do I get the current time in Python?

Answer 1

Use datetime:

>>> import datetime >>> now = datetime.datetime.now() >>> now datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 6, 15, 8, 24, 78915) >>> print(now) 2009-01-06 15:08:24.789150 

For just the clock time without the date:

>>> now.time() datetime.time(15, 8, 24, 78915) >>> print(now.time()) 15:08:24.789150 

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To save typing, you can import the datetime object from the datetime module:

>>> from datetime import datetime 

Then remove the prefix datetime. from all of the above.