Question

I’m using Python v2.x and am wondering how I can rename a known text file, for my example say “text.txt”, to include the current date and time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

To get the current datetime use:

import datetime
dt = str(datetime.datetime.now())

Then to rename file:

import os
newname = 'file_'+dt+'.txt'
os.rename('text.txt', newname)