Using datetime.now gives datetime.datetime error

Question

so i've been on the python language making stuff. I encounter some error which is not so understandable:

TypeError: 'datetime.datetime' object is not subscriptable

(I think) this is the code that cause it:

def brew():
    # Get UTC time
    curr_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    # Slice it
    curr_dt = curr_dt[0:19]
    # Print
    print(curr_dt)

What am I doing wrong? I just want to get the date and time in 2022-01-04 14:25:10.860837+00:00 by slicing it. Is there a solution of how to get rid of error or even comes with more easy and/or practical ways? Thank You for Your time.

you have a datetime object curr_dt - you can't subscript that (the [0:19] part). Convert to string first, e.g. datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(' ')[:19]. — FObersteiner
– FObersteiner, Commented Jan 4, 2022 at 14:33
Use datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') or str(datetime.now(timezone.utc))[:19] — Corralien
– Corralien, Commented Jan 4, 2022 at 14:35

Corralien · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-04 14:37:04Z

3

Use the following code:

from datetime import datetime, timezone

def brew():
    # curr_dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    curr_dt = str(datetime.now(timezone.utc))[:19]
    print(curr_dt)

Output:

>>> brew()
'2022-01-04 14:35:04'

answered Jan 4, 2022 at 14:37

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