3. Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, Functions

Activity 8: What's the Time?

Solution:

In the following, you will find the solution code to Activity 8, What's the Time?

To make it easier to understand, the code has been broken down with explanations:

current_time.py:

"""
This script returns the current system time.
"""

1. Firstly, we import the datetime library, which contains a range of useful utilities for working with dates:

   import datetime

2. Using the datetime library, we can get the current datetime stamp, and then call the time() function in order to retrieve the time:

   time = datetime.datetime.now().time()

3. If the script is being executed, this if statement will be true, and, therefore, the time will be printed:

   if __name__ == '__main__':
       print(time) 

   You should get the following output:

Figure 3.35: The output in the datetime format

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