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Exporting to PDF with a Unique Name

joshwheeler1

Hello,

I have a script that exports my .mxd to a .pdf and a .png and I would like to add a Unique Name to the exported maps so everytime the script runs the exports don't get overwritten.

I would like to have the date included in the exported documents name. My idea was to add time.asctime() to the title but I can't seem to get that to work.

Any ideas would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Josh

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MathewCoyle

I usually do something like this.

stamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%M_%d_%H%M%S")

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RhettZufelt

strftime actually has a bunch of directives you can use. See here for the list http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/time_strftime.htm

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MathewCoyle

Ah yes small typo, rhett is right, should be %m for month. Though date formats are always year_month_day.

RhettZufelt

That works if you want year_Minutes_day_hour_minutes_seconds.
If you want Month_Day_year, something like this works:

>>> from time import strftime
>>> stamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%M_%d_%H%M%S")
>>> stamp
'2013_56_30_155604'
>>> 
>>> dt = strftime("%m_%d_%Y %H:%M:%S")
>>> dt
'05_30_2013 15:56:17'
>>> 
>>> dt = strftime("%m_%d_%Y")
>>> dt
'05_30_2013'

joshwheeler1

Just what I needed, thanks a lot.

MathewCoyle

I usually do something like this.

stamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%M_%d_%H%M%S")

g5273182-gisday-keyart-refresh_Page_25.jpg

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