How to get current time in python and break up into year, month, day, hour, minute?

The datetime module is your friend:

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
print(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second)
# 2015 5 6 8 53 40

You don't need separate variables, the attributes on the returned datetime object have all you need.

Here's a one-liner that comes in just under the 80 char line max.

import time
year, month, day, hour, min = map(int, time.strftime("%Y %m %d %H %M").split())

The datetime answer by tzaman is much cleaner, but you can do it with the original python time module:

import time
strings = time.strftime("%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S")
t = strings.split(',')
numbers = [ int(x) for x in t ]
print numbers

Output:

[2016, 3, 11, 8, 29, 47]

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