Comments on: OSX:Changing the “Web Receipts” Folder

By: pablo

pablo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:47:55 +0000

Sure. Here are the two changes.
1) add “import datetime” (this can replace the previous “from
datetime import date”)
2) replace “date.today()” with:
“datetime.datetime.now().strftime(”%Y%m%d”)”

Resulting in:
title = “%s - %s” % (datetime.datetime.now().strftime(”%Y%m%d”), title)

You can also compose other arbitrary date formats with this method.

By: Yves

Yves — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:16:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip!
Is there a way the date could be without the dashes (20080914) ?

By: James

James — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:31:09 +0000

HI thanks for this. All goes well until I try to implement the addition of date to the pdf is this correct:
import os
import shutil
import sys
from datetime import date
def safeFilename(filename):
filename = filename.lstrip(’.')
filename = filename.replace(os.path.sep, ‘-’)
if len(filename) == 0:
filename = “Untitled”
elif len(filename) > 245:
filename = filename[0:245]
return filename

def main(argv):

(title, options, pdfFile) = argv[0:3]
title = “%s - %s” % (date.today(), title
destDirectory = os.path.expanduser(”~/Archive/Receipts/”)
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