displaying date problem

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i need to be able to have python spit out a date like this (mm/dd/yyyy) even if the user doesnt add the "/" to there input. here is what i got so far.

import string
date = raw_input(enter your date:")
print date[0:2]+'/',date[2:4]+'/',date[4:8]

the output is mm/ dd/ yyyy.

how would you go about getting rid of the blank spaces in front of dd and yyyy?

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Re: displaying date problem

Replace the commas by plus.
What do you expect the user to enter? You may want to give some kind of a templet/hint in your prompt.

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Re: displaying date problem

I would assign your date variable into a date type variable (I think it was something like datetime just look it up). so you will have a real date. then you can easiliy format your out put.

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