I am trying to rename shapefile with date (.format)

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Hello I am getting error for this code I couldn’t find the problem

Error:
File "C:Scheduleopen_restaurants.py", line 74
    txtFileNameNoExt = "{}_{}".format(os.path.splitext(txtFileNameWithExt)[0], datetime.datetime.now(%y_%m_%d))
                                                                                                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

#rename shapefile
txtFileNameWithExt = "Open_Restaurants.shp"
txtFileNameNoExt = "{}_{}".format(os.path.splitext(txtFileNameWithExt)[0], datetime.datetime.now(%y_%m_%d))
arcpy.env.workspace = my_Path
arcpy.Rename_management(txtFileNameWithExt,"{}.shp".format(txtFileNameNoExt))

Asked By: Kylie

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Answer 1

change datetime part to

datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%y_%m_%d')

docs: datetime module strftime

Answered By: marmeladze

I am trying to rename shapefile with date (.format)

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