time - Using %f with strftime() in Python to get microseconds

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I'm trying to use strftime() to
microsecond precision, which seems possible using %f (as stated href="http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior"
rel="noreferrer">here). However when I try the following
code:

import
            time
import strftime from time

print
            strftime("%H:%M:%S.%f")

...I
get the hour, the minutes and the seconds, but %f prints as %f, with no sign of the
microseconds. I'm running Python 2.6.5 on Ubuntu, so it should be fine and %f should be
supported (it's supported for 2.6 and above, as far as I know.)

Answer

You can use datetime's strftime function to
get this. The problem is that time's strftime accepts a timetuple that does not carry
microsecond
information.

from
            datetime import
            datetime
datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S.%f")

Should
do the trick!