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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Date and Time

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Time-zone-aware datetime—retrieving a reliable value for the current datetime
  • Parsing dates—how to parse dates according to the ISO 8601 format
  • Saving dates—how to store datetimes
  • From timestamp to datetime—converting to and from timestamps
  • Displaying dates in a user format—formatting dates according to our user language
  • Going to tomorrow—how to compute a datetime that refers to tomorrow
  • Going to next month—how to compute a datetime that refers to next month
  • Weekdays—how to build a date that refers to the nth Monday/Friday of the month
  • Workdays—how to get workdays in a time range
  • Combining dates and times—making a datetime out of a date and time
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