{"id":24090,"date":"2022-11-30T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-does-formatting-a-python-date-object-with-str-format-work\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T08:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:14:47","slug":"solved-how-does-formatting-a-python-date-object-with-str-format-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-does-formatting-a-python-date-object-with-str-format-work\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How does formatting a Python date object with str.format() work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-34929770\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"34929770\" data-parentid=\"34927558\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The <code>date<\/code> class defines the <code>__format__()<\/code> magic method, which is called by <code>str.format()<\/code> to produce a \u201cformatted\u201d string representation of an object. To quote the documentation for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3.7\/library\/datetime.html?highlight=strftime#datetime.date.__format__\"><code>date.__format__()<\/code><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Same as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3.7\/library\/datetime.html?highlight=strftime#datetime.date.strftime\"><code>date.strftime()<\/code><\/a>. This makes it possible to specify a format<br \/>\n  string for a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3.7\/library\/datetime.html?highlight=strftime#datetime.date\"><code>date<\/code><\/a> object in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3.7\/reference\/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings\">formatted string literals<\/a> and when using<br \/>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3.7\/library\/stdtypes.html#str.format\"><code>str.format()<\/code><\/a>. For a complete list of formatting directives, see<br \/>\n  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3.7\/library\/datetime.html?highlight=strftime#strftime-strptime-behavior\"><code>strftime()<\/code> and <code>strptime()<\/code> Behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Therefore, <code>'{:%A}'.format(date.today())<\/code> is equivalent to <code>date.today().strftime('%A')<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How does formatting a Python date object with str.format() work? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The date class defines the __format__() magic method, which is called by str.format() to produce a \u201cformatted\u201d string representation of an object. To quote the documentation for date.__format__(): Same as date.strftime(). 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