How to print a date with dashes?

Question

I'm quite lost and I'm in need of trying to format some code so it ends up having dashes in the date. I can get 3, 12, 28 but I can't get 3-12-28. I am a super new beginner so I'm quite lost at the moment.

    year = 3
    month = 12
    day = 28
    print(date)

Are you using something like `datetime` module or just pure strings? — alikhtag, Mar 03 '20 at 10:04
`print(f'{year}-{month}-{day}')` to begin with, but this will become problematic for a day or month `< 10` — Thomas Schillaci, Mar 03 '20 at 10:04
Does this answer your question? [String formatting in Python 3](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13945749/string-formatting-in-python-3) — Hymns For Disco, Mar 03 '20 at 10:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:04

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Try

print("{0}-{1}-{2}".format(year,month,day))

answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:04

emilaz

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:11

You could use datetime to format the result

import datetime

year = 3
month = 12
day = 28

dt = (datetime.date(year, month, day))
print(dt)

the result will be 0003-12-28

if you want more examples of datetime you could take a look at https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#

CodeCupboard · Answer 3 · 2020-03-03T15:54:28.807

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As you say you are new to python you can concatenate the strings together.

year = 3
month = 12
day = 28
date = year + "-" + month + "-" + day
print(date)

Alternatively you can use format to set the variables in your required format.

print(f"{year}-{month}-{day}")

Another method is to use datetime if you are using todays date

import datetime

today = datetime.date.today()
print(today)

edited Mar 03 '20 at 15:54

answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:05

CodeCupboard

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How to print a date with dashes?

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