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

Answer 1

The datetime answer by tzaman is much cleaner, but you can do it with the original python time module:

import time
strings = time.strftime("%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S")
t = strings.split(',')
numbers = [ int(x) for x in t ]
print numbers

Output:

[2016, 3, 11, 8, 29, 47]