Format time string in Python 3.3

I am trying to get current local time as a string in the format: year-month-day hour:mins:seconds. Which I will use for logging. By my reading of the documentation I can do this by:

import time
'{0:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}'.format(time.localtime())

However I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in 
ValueError: Invalid format specifier

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way?

Answer

time.localtime returns time.struct_time which does not support strftime-like formatting.

Pass datetime.datetime object which support strftime formatting. (See datetime.datetime.__format__)

>>> import datetime
>>> '{0:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}'.format(datetime.datetime.now())
'2014-02-07 11:52:21'