date.timetuple() Get a tuple with all details of date and time using datetime library in Pyhon

Date

timetuple : Details about date and time as elements of a tuple.

Today's details as timetuple

from datetime import date
dt=date.today().timetuple()
print(dt)

Output

time.struct_time(tm_year=2019, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=16, tm_hour=0,
 tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=259, tm_isdst=-1)

Getting time details along with date

from datetime import datetime
dt=datetime.now().timetuple()
print(dt)

Output is here

time.struct_time(tm_year=2019, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=17, tm_hour=6, 
tm_min=18, tm_sec=26, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=260, tm_isdst=-1)

Using date object

import datetime
dt=datetime.datetime(2019,12,31)
print(dt.timetuple())

Output

time.struct_time(tm_year=2019, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31, tm_hour=0, 
tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=365, tm_isdst=-1)

Using datetime

import datetime
# Year, Month, date, Hour, Minute , Second, mircosecond 
dt=datetime.datetime(2019,12,31,23,59,59,345234)
print(dt.timetuple())

Output

time.struct_time(tm_year=2019, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31, tm_hour=23, 
tm_min=59, tm_sec=59, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=365, tm_isdst=-1)

Details about the elements of timetuple tm_year :Year in YYYY format
tm_month: Month in two digits
tm_mday :Day of the month
th_hour :Hour of the day in 24 hours format
tm_min :Minutes in 2 digits
tm_sec :Seconds in 2 digits
tm_wday :Weekday in number starting with 0 as Sun,1 as Mon ...
tm_yday :Day of the year starting from 1^st Jan as 1 and 365 as 31st Dec ( not leap year)
tm_isdst :Daylight Saving Time as flag. It is greater than 0 if DST is in effect. 0 if DST is not in effect and less than 0 if no information is available.

As we get a tuple we can apply all methods of tuple.
Total Number of elements in output is here ( we will use len())

print(len(dt.timetuple()))

output

Value of 2nd element i.e date part of the object. ( first element position is 0 )

print(dt.timetuple()[2])

Output is

Displaying all values by looping.

for i in dt.timetuple():
    print(i)

Output is here

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