Source code for miscset.dt

# miscset.dt


"""Date and time methods.

For convenience, wrap a simpler date/time format to retrieve standardized strings from
a pythone datetime object, or directly from the current system time.
"""


import datetime


def format(dt, fmt = "dt", simplified = True):
    """Format a datetime object.

    Use a python :py:class:`datetime.datetime` object and convert it to a string,
    wrapping the :py:meth:`datetime.datetime.strftime` method.
    For convenience, enable the interpretation of a simpler syntax for common and
    default string formatted system time.

    Args:
        dt (datetime.datetime): A datetime object to format to a string.
        fmt (str): A datetime string format to apply, one of:

            - "dt" aka date and time -> YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
            - "d"  aka date          -> YYYY-MM-DD
            - "t"  aka time          -> HH:MM:SS
            - "f"  aka file name     -> YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS
            - "n"  aka numbers       -> YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

        simplified (bool): True to expand the `fmt` from a simplified encoding;
            otherwise use the formats supported by the :py:meth:`datetime.datetime.strftime` method,
            see details at the documentation for
            `format codes <https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes>`_.

    Returns:
        str: The datetime object converted to a string.
    """
    if simplified:
        fmt = fmt.lower()
        if fmt == "dt":
            fmt = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
        elif fmt == "d":
            fmt = "%Y-%m-%d"
        elif fmt == "t":
            fmt = "%H:%M:%S"
        elif fmt == "f":
            fmt = "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S"
        elif fmt == "n":
            fmt = "%Y%m%d%H%M%S"
        else:
            fmt = ""
    return dt.strftime(fmt)


def now(fmt = "dt", simplified = True):
    """Obtain the current time as string.

    Args:
        fmt (str): A date/time format defined in :func:`format`.
        simplified (bool): See :func:`format`.

    Returns:
        str: The current time formatted as string.
    """
    dt = datetime.datetime.now()
    return format(dt, fmt, simplified)