The Datetime Library

A library that is included with python is the datetime library. This allows a user to work with dates and times easily.

Example

Here is short example of this library in action.
from datetime import datetime
x = datetime.now()

print (x.year)
print (x.month)
print (x.day)
print (x.hour)
print (x.minute)
print (x.second)
print (x.microsecond)
This returns:
2017
10
24
19
23
48
232550




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