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I am writing a script that acts as an AIM bot [using twisted.IM's base
scripts] and I want to add a logging feature. I got it to log who sends
what to whom, but what I want to add is the date and time that the
message was sent (or recieved by the bot), I tried to look at datetime
on my own, and I couldn't get anything to work.
Anyone know a simple way to get the current date and/or time?

Thanks!

The time module will do.
>>> import time
>>> time.ctime()
'Mon Jan 10 11:17:54 2005'

Use strftime if you need to format the time differently.
>>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%m:%S",time.localtime())
'2005-01-10 11:01:45'

On 9 Jan 2005 21:46:12 -0800, <> wrote:
> I am writing a script that acts as an AIM bot [using twisted.IM's base
> scripts] and I want to add a logging feature. I got it to log who sends
> what to whom, but what I want to add is the date and time that the
> message was sent (or recieved by the bot), I tried to look at datetime
> on my own, and I couldn't get anything to work.
> Anyone know a simple way to get the current date and/or time?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

take a look at the logging module as well, in the documentation
(paragraph 6.29.2 for release 2.4) you find a basic example

wrote:

>I am writing a script that acts as an AIM bot [using twisted.IM's base
>scripts] and I want to add a logging feature. I got it to log who sends
>what to whom, but what I want to add is the date and time that the
>message was sent (or recieved by the bot), I tried to look at datetime
>on my own, and I couldn't get anything to work.
>Anyone know a simple way to get the current date and/or time?
>
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2005, 1, 10, 6, 39, 56, 64000)
>>> print datetime.datetime.now()
2005-01-10 06:40:03.705000
>>>

You may also want to consider using the logging module.

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