how to get the hour time?

Question

I\'m working on my python script to get the 12 hours time.

I want to get the 7 hour instead of 07.

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Answer 1

You can use lstrip to remove a given character from the left side of the result (if it exists):

hour = time.strftime("%I").lstrip('0')
print(hour) 

Answer 2

As Derek mentions in his answer, you can strip leading zeros for a more portable solution.

>>> print(time.strftime("%I").lstrip('0'))
2

If you are on a Linux platform that uses glibc though, you have a few additional options.

Option 1:

Use %l. Notice that this leaves has a space at the beginning, in place of the 0:

>>> print(time.strftime("%l"))
 2

Option 2:

Use %-I. This does not have the leading 0 or leading space.

>>> print(time.strftime("%-I"))
2

These two options work on Linux systems that use glibc, because Python uses the strftime() from that library.