Python — Adding a date to filename
1 min readJan 1, 2021
As a total Noob to Python, it may seem a pretty simple to add date to the end of a file name … but it took me an hour to work it out *facepalm inserted here*
First in my script, I imported the “date” portion of the from the “datetime” libary,
from datetime import date
today = date.today()
print("Today's date:", today)
When creating the file (and this is the bit that took me an hour to find), you will need to set a verable which uses “today”
Date = (today)
Once you have set the date you can add this into the file name by using “+ (str(Date))”
with open('d:/Test/Webversion-' + (str(Date)) + '.txt', 'w') as output:
output.write("Today's Date - ")
output.write("\n")
The bit that took me a little bit of time was getting the single qoute marks correct in the correct place, you can see how I have used this in a script on my GitHub …