Python strftime - date without leading 0?

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Solihull picture Solihull · May 25, 2009 · Viewed 133.7k times · Source

When using Python strftime, is there a way to remove the first 0 of the date if it's before the 10th, ie. so 01 is 1? Can't find a %thingy for that?

Thanks!

Answer

Ryan picture Ryan · Jan 15, 2010

Actually I had the same problem and I realized that, if you add a hyphen between the % and the letter, you can remove the leading zero.

For example %Y/%-m/%-d.

This only works on Unix (Linux, OS X), not Windows (including Cygwin). On Windows, you would use #, e.g. %Y/%#m/%#d.

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