Using %f with strftime() in Python to get microseconds

Question

I\'m trying to use strftime() to microsecond precision, which seems possible using %f (as stated here). However when I try the following code:

import time
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Answer 1

You are looking at the wrong documentation. The time module has different documentation.

You can use the datetime module strftime like this:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>>
>>> now = datetime.now()
>>> now.strftime("%H:%M:%S.%f")
'12:19:40.948000'