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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By : Alessandro Molina
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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By: Alessandro Molina

Overview of this book

The Python 3 Standard Library is a vast array of modules that you can use for developing various kinds of applications. It contains an exhaustive list of libraries, and this book will help you choose the best one to address specific programming problems in Python. The Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook begins with recipes on containers and data structures and guides you in performing effective text management in Python. You will find Python recipes for command-line operations, networking, filesystems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about Python security essentials in Python and get to grips with various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, and tracing. The book includes recipes to help you create graphical user interfaces for your application. You will learn to work with multimedia components and perform mathematical operations on date and time. The recipes will also show you how to deploy different searching and sorting algorithms on your data. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills needed to write clean code in Python and develop applications that meet your needs.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. 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