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Asked: 2026-06-18T18:03:47+00:00

I am learning python and i am trying to write a stupid code and

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I am learning python and i am trying to write a stupid code and got stuck here, I am need backupfile name like full-backup-ucs-2013-02-12

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
from time import strftime

DATE=`strftime("%Y-%m-%d")`
backupfile = "full-backup-ucs-" + DATE

print backupfile

When i run i got following output, did you see it print two single quote ' ' in date, I want to remove them. I am sure there is elegant way to do that please suggest: 

[spatel@tux work]$ ./backup.py
full-backup-ucs-'2013-02-12'
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the datetime module to get this information.

    import datetime
DATE = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

    As I’m sure you’ve noticed, backtic substitution doesn’t work in python as it does in the shell. It implicitly calls repr (in python2.x) which is where your additional quotes are coming from.

    EDIT — Apparently you could just use remove the backtics and your code should more or less work as time.strftime uses the current localtime if you omit the second argument.

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