A small script to insert date and/or time

[Oliver]

I have installed the PythonScript plugin for NP++ to program a script to be able to insert date and/or time. Based on example scripts I have created the following script :

import datetime
now = datetime.now()
timestr = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
editor.addText(timestr)

but this does not seem to work (trying to run it by going into the Extensions/Phythonscript/Scripts menu and clicking on the scripts name.
Even a simple script such as

Editor.addText("Test")

does not seem to have any effect.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what has gone wrong ? I have no experience in Python programming (but have programmed in other languages)
Cheers
Oliver

[Oliver]

it seems that datetime.now() does not exist as I get the following error :
'module' object has no attribute 'now'

I have also tried with datetime.today(), same error :
'module' object has no attribute 'today'

I have also exchanged the first line of the script with
from datetime import date

same error.
any help would be welcome
Cheers

Oliver

[Oliver]

I searched the forum and found a script that does the trick :

import time
editor.addText(time.strftime('%d/%m/%Y '))

had found it here :
https://sourceforge.net/p/npppythonscript/discussion/1199074/thread/a50c6c37/
thanks to IObasetom

[Sasumner]

I think your original script would have worked (or been close to working) if you had done:
now = datetime.datetime.now()

Perhaps why it didn't appear to do anything is you didn't have the console showing to see the errors.

[Oliver]

Thanks Sasumner, you were correct, the following script is now working :
import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
timestr = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
editor.addText(timestr)

However I still have a problem when adding this script as a button, I get the following error :

An exception occirred due to plucin: DSpellCheck.dll Exception reason: Access violation

The button of the script appears actually beside the button of the DSpellChecker.

[Sasumner]

I don't know, I don't use DSpellCheck. Maybe remove it if you don't use it either. Also, maybe it is an older version, try looking for newer version.

[Oliver]

@Sasumner I just disactiaved DSPellCheck and now it works great ;-) Thanks again for your help