text: #note most of this file is an example from pymotw
  import datetime
  
  print help(datetime.datetime)
  
  d = datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 30, 14,33)
  print d
  
  s = d.strftime(format)
  
  print s
  
  
  today = datetime.datetime.today()
  print 'ISO     :', today
  
  format = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"
  
  s = today.strftime(format)
  print 'strftime:', s
  
  d = datetime.datetime.strptime(s, format)
  print 'strptime:', d.strftime(format)