How to get current time in python and break up into year, month, day, hour, minute?

Question

I would like to get the current time in Python and assign them into variables like year, month, day, hour, minute. How can this be done in Python 2.7?

Answer 1

To get the current time in Python and break up into year, month, day, hour, minute the datetime module is your friend:

import datetime 

now = datetime.datetime.now() 

print(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second)