Format time string in Python 3.3

Question

I am trying to get current local time as a string in the format: year-month-day hour:mins:seconds. Which I will use for logging. By my reading of the documentation I can do

Answer 1

And for newer versions of Python (3.6+, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/ purely for completeness), you can use the newer string formatting, ie.

import datetime

today = datetime.date.today()

f'{today:%Y-%m-%d}'
> '2018-11-01'