Sorry to ask a simple question but I am a little confused how to combine the input function and the date time module.
Simply at the start of the program I want to prompt the user to enter the date, desirably in the format dd/mm/year. However I want to make sure that python understands the time format because first the date will form part of the name of the output file so dd/mm/year as 1st September 2009, secondly if I have multiple output files saved in a directory I may need to search later on the files and contents of files by date range. So can I timestamp the file? I know this is a simple question but it eludes me exactly how to do it. I have the basics from http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html from datetime import date date = input("type date dd/mm/year: ") datetime(day,month,year) # some program blocks #print to file(name = date) or apphend if it exists -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list