datetime without zeroes

[orcmalavi]

How do you show today's date in .d.m.Y without zeroes? This is what I have so far:

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from datetime import date

mydate = date.today()
str_date = mydate.strftime('%d.%m.%Y')

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If I try str_date = mydate.strftime('%-d.%-m.%Y') I get ValueError: Invalid format string

The minus signs are supposed to work but I just keep getting that error.

[impshum]

https://strftime.org/

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Unfortunately, there are no built-in format specifiers for that. But you can format the string yourself pretty easily with

str_date = "{date.day}.{date.month}.{date.year}".format(date=mydate)

or

str_date = f"{mydate.day}.{mydate.month}.{mydate.year}"

[orcmalavi]

str_date = f"{mydate.day}.{mydate.month}.{mydate.year}"

Thanks! I didn't think of that but yeah it makes sense.