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Python - Padding Single Digits In Dates

Python - Padding Single Digits In Dates

Here is how to zero-pad single digit days or months in a date string:

 date = '3/2/2008' padded_date = time.strftime('%m/%d/%Y',
time.strptime(date,'%m/%d/%Y')) print padded_date 
>> 03/02/2008