Question

How do I display the date, like "Aug 5th", using Python's strftime?

Answer 1

It is not possible to get a suffix like st, nd, rd and th using the strftime function. The strftime function doesn't have a directive that supports this formatting. You can create your own function to figure out the suffix and add it to the formatting string you provide. For example,

from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now()

def suffix(day):

suffix = ""

if 4 <= day <= 20 or 24 <= day <= 30:

suffix = "th"

else:

suffix = ["st", "nd", "rd"][day % 10 - 1]

return suffix

my_date = now.strftime("%b %d" + suffix(now.day))

print(my_date)