Isoformat in Python 2.4

Tim — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Sometimes I don’t like python. Just sometimes, I love it most of the times. But just look what hoops I need to jump through to get a current timestamp in ISO format:

from datetime import datetime, tzinfo, timedelta
import time

class TZ(tzinfo):
        def utcoffset(self,dt): return timedelta(seconds=time.timezone)
        def dst(self,dt): return timedelta(0)

a = datetime.now(TZ())
a= a.replace(microsecond = 0)
print a.isoformat()

That prints:

asterisk:~ tim$ python test.py 2008-03-24T13:38:06-01:00

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Isoformat in Python 2.4