[Django]-Is there a way to get Django's default string for date and time from Python's datetime?

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Using django.utils.dateformat which Steven linked to:

>>> import datetime
>>> from django.utils import dateformat
>>> dateformat.format(datetime.datetime.now(), 'F j, Y, P')
u'April 14, 2012, 1:31 p.m.'

P is the interesting extension to strftime, on line 93:

Time, in 12-hour hours, minutes and 'a.m.'/'p.m.', with minutes left off
if they're zero and the strings 'midnight' and 'noon' if appropriate.
Examples: '1 a.m.', '1:30 p.m.', 'midnight', 'noon', '12:30 p.m.'
Proprietary extension.
👤agf

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Here’s one lazy way to do it:

def f(dt):
    s = dt.strftime('%B %d, %Y, %I:%M %p')
    for unwanted, wanted in [
        ('12:00 AM', 'midnight'),
        ('12:00 PM', 'noon'),
        ('AM','a.m.'),
        ('PM', 'p.m.'),
        (':00', ''),
        (' 0', ' ')]:
        s = s.replace(unwanted, wanted)
    return s

This

print f(datetime(2012, 4, 4, 6))
print f(datetime(2012, 4, 14, 12, 6))
print f(datetime(2012, 4, 14, 12))
print f(datetime(2012, 4, 14, 0))
print f(datetime(2012, 4, 14, 6, 2))

gives

April 4, 2012, 6 a.m.
April 14, 2012, 12:06 p.m.
April 14, 2012, noon
April 14, 2012, midnight
April 14, 2012, 6:02 a.m.
👤Steven Rumbalski

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