How to print a date in a regular format?

Question

This is my code:

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
print(today)

This prints: 2008-11-22 which is exactly what I wa

Answer 1

import datetime
print datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

Edit:

After Cees' suggestion, I have started using time as well:

import time
print time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")