Return current date and time in Python


Import Modules

import datetime

Grab current datetime

datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 7, 15, 6, 49, 819248)

Grab current time

datetime.datetime.now().time()
datetime.time(15, 8, 51, 723898)

Grab datetime in more readable format

str(datetime.datetime.now())
'2017-09-07 15:06:50.211892'