Convert Date To Natural Language In Python?

Possible Duplicate: How to print date in a regular format in Python? I would like to know how to convert the following date to natural language, including time zone in python? i

Solution 1:

The Babel project offers a full-featured date and time localization library.

You'll also need the iso8601 module to parse a date-time string with a timezone correctly.

It either formats dates and times based on locale:

>>> from datetime import date, datetime, time
>>> from babel.dates import format_date, format_datetime, format_time
>>> d = date(2007, 4, 1)
>>> format_date(d, locale='en')
u'Apr 1, 2007'>>> format_date(d, locale='de_DE')
u'01.04.2007'

or it let's you specify the format in detail. This includes formatting the timezone.

Putting the parser and the formatter together:

>>> dt = iso8601.parse_date("2012-08-25T02:00:00Z")
>>> format_date(dt, "MMMM dd, yyyy", locale='en') + ' at ' + format_time(dt, "HH:mm V")
u'August 25, 2012 at 02:00 World (GMT) Time'

Ordinals ('1st', '2nd', etc.) are a little harder to do internationally, and the LDML format used by Babel doesn't include a pattern for these.

If you must have an ordinal in your date formatting (perhaps because you only expect to output in English), you'll have to create those yourself:

>>> suffix = ('st'if dt.day in [1,21,31]
... else'nd'if dt.day in [2, 22] 
... else'rd'if dt.day in [3, 23]
... else'th')
>>> u'{date}{suffix}, {year} at {time}'.format(
...     date=format_date(dt, "MMMM dd", locale='en'),
...     suffix=suffix, year=dt.year,
...     time=format_time(dt, "HH:mm V"))
u'August 25th, 2012 at 02:00 World (GMT) Time'

Solution 2:

You can get a custom string representation of your date using the strftime() method. strftime accepts a string pattern explaining how you want to format your date.

For example:

print today.strftime('We are the %d, %h %Y')
'We are the 22, Nov 2008'

All the letters after a "%" represent a format for something:

• %d is the day number
• %m is the month number
• %y is the year last two digits
• %Y is the all year

https://stackoverflow.com/a/311655

Solution 3:

Not 100% the answer to your question, but this code might help you starting formatting time and date:

import datetime
print datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')

Solution 4:

defmyFormat(dtime):
    if dtime.day in [1,21,31] : ending = "st"elif dtime.day in [2,22] : ending = "nd"elif dtime.day in [3,23] : ending = "rd"else : ending = "th"return dtime.strftime("%B %d"+ ending + " of %Y")