How to set file name as date in command prompt

Question

I want to run the following .py script at the command prompt:

connect('weblogic','welcome','t3://localhost:7001')
exportMetadata(application='soa-infra', server='AdminServer',toLocation='C:\soa11g\New\abc_date.zip', docs='/**')
exit()  

However, whenever I execute it, I need to create a .zip file with whose name contains the sysdate, e.g. abc_10082015 or abc_10-08-2015. How can I do that?

Answer 1

First of all, for your path string, you should prefix r so that it is treated as raw string, and \ is not treated as escape characters.

Secondly, You can use datetime.datetime.now() to get the current time , and then use strftime() to fromat the date as you want. Example -

import datetime
path = r'C:\soa11g\New\abc_%s.zip' % datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%d%m%Y')
connect('weblogic','welcome','t3://localhost:7001')
exportMetadata(application='soa-infra', server='AdminServer',toLocation=path, docs='/**')
exit()

If you want , you can also give format as - '%d_%m_%Y' to get '10-08-2015' . You can get such format details from here .