Printing part of an integer

Question

I have a quick question.

I just want to print parts of an integer. For example, my integer is today's date: 20190327 ...and I would like to print the "03" part.

Is this even possible with integers?

I would like to do something similar to this:

todays_date = 20190327
print(todays_date[0:5])

But this doesn't work. Is there a simple solution? Thanks!

str(todays_date)[0:5]?

dcg
– dcg

2019-03-27 22:54:07 +00:00
Commented Mar 27, 2019 at 22:54 — dcg
– dcg, Commented Mar 27, 2019 at 22:54

Recessive · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-27 22:55:54Z

3

You're almost there:

todays_date = '20190327'
print(todays_date[0:5])

You just needed to ensure todays_date was a string. Putting quotes around this does that. Alternatively, if you would still like to use todays_date as an integer, you can convert it to a string just for the print statement:

todays_date = 20190327
print(str(todays_date)[0:5])

answered Mar 27, 2019 at 22:55

Recessive

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Jonas Graffman Over a year ago

Great! Thanks a lot!

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