65 – Formatting dates with f-strings

65 – Formatting dates with f-strings#

Dates, times, and datetime objects, from the module datetime, can be formatted directly in f-strings.

You don’t need to use strptime. Or strftime, whichever one of these two does the formatting.

The format specifier can contain the special codes with % to refer to parts of the date but anything else is left untouched.

from datetime import date

print(f"{date.today():%Y-%m-%d}")
# 2025-06-03

print(f"{date.today():%Y---%m :: %d}")
# 2025---06 :: 03