Passing currenttime as parameter into Python command line

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I run my Python scripts with python -m unittest discover command. I'd like to passing current time yyyymmddhhmmssas parameter into execution command.

How can do that?

Possible duplicate of [Command Line Arguments In Python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1009860/command-line-arguments-in-python) — Torxed, Nov 12 '15 at 07:55

Freek Wiekmeijer · Answer 1 · 2015-11-12T08:01:23.460

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If you want to sample the current time on the system running the puthon code, you can use datetime.datetime.now() (local time) or datetime.datetime.utcnow() (UTC).

Then you can format as string using .strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S").

edited Nov 12 '15 at 08:01

answered Nov 12 '15 at 08:00

Freek Wiekmeijer

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can i use it as a parameter? – Mahsum Akbas Nov 12 '15 at 08:00
To which function do you want to pass the parameter? – Freek Wiekmeijer Nov 12 '15 at 08:01
.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S") that you presented – Mahsum Akbas Nov 12 '15 at 08:02
That's just the conversion from a `datetime` object into a string with yyyymmddHHMMSS format. But where does the date/time sting go? Which function needs the infomation? – Freek Wiekmeijer Nov 12 '15 at 08:03
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i think i couldn't clear the question: i have multiple python files. i run with command that i presented in question. i need that because, i will use same parameter for several purposes in each class(as an id) – Mahsum Akbas Nov 12 '15 at 08:27

Passing currenttime as parameter into Python command line

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