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

This is an older question, but I came up with a solution I thought others might like.

def get_current_datetime_as_dict():
n = datetime.now()
t = n.timetuple()
field_names = ["year",
               "month",
               "day",
               "hour",
               "min",
               "sec",
               "weekday",
               "md",
               "yd"]
return dict(zip(field_names, t))

timetuple() can be zipped with another array, which creates labeled tuples. Cast that to a dictionary and the resultant product can be consumed with get_current_datetime_as_dict()['year'].

This has a little more overhead than some of the other solutions on here, but I've found it's so nice to be able to access named values for clartiy's sake in the code.