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

you can use datetime module to get current Date and Time in Python 2.7

import datetime
print datetime.datetime.now()

Output :

2015-05-06 14:44:14.369392