How to create a file name with the current date & time in Python?

Question

Here is a functional code (create file with success)

sys.stdout = open(\'filename1.xml\', \'w\')

Now I\'m trying to name the file with the cu

Answer 1

I'm surprised there is not some single formatter that returns a default (and safe) 'for appending in filename' - format of the time, We could simply write FD.write('mybackup'+time.strftime('%(formatter here)') + 'ext'

"%x" instead of "%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"