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import datetime


    

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now = datetime.datetime.now()
now


    

    
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datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 17, 20, 14, 14, 400843)

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s = now.strftime('%Y%m%d')
s


    

    
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'20141217'

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s = '17/12/2014'
t = s.split('/', 2)
t


    

    
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['17', '12', '2014']

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d, m, y = t
m, d, y


    

    
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('12', '17', '2014')

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d, m, y = map(int, t)
m, d, y


    

    
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(12, 17, 2014)

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d, m, y = [int(s) for s in t]
m, d, y


    

    
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(12, 17, 2014)

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d, m, y = (int(s) for s in t)
m, d, y


    

    
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(12, 17, 2014)

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u = datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%d/%m/%Y')
u.month, u.day, u.year


    

    
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(12, 17, 2014)