How to get today's date in YYYYMMDD format

In [1]:

#example using the time module
import time

print time.strftime('%Y%m%d') 

20141213

In [2]:

#alternatively, an example using the datetime module
import datetime

#sets the variable "today" as the datetime object.
today = datetime.datetime.today() 

In [3]:

#today is a datetime object
today 

Out[3]:

datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 13, 12, 32, 51, 292545)

In [4]:

#print the string of the datetime object in the desired format
print today.strftime('%Y%m%d') 

20141213