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I'm trying to make an autokey script to send the date when I press the assigned hotkey. In the end Im hoping for it to look something like "September 20th, 2022". So far what I have is, system.exec_command("date +%B-%d-%Y") which sends the date but it adds the little "-" instead of a space. I know it's because I have that in the code but I can't find what the correct way to make it send the space key is. I know for sending the return/enter key it's "<enter>" so I tried doing it like "<space>" but it didn't work. Does anyone know what the correct way to type it is? also if you do could you direct me to somewhere where i could find a list of those kind of "commands" so to speak for future endeavors. thanks

Also i don't think there's a way to do it after looking at the bottom of this site but if anyone knows how to get the correct suffix like the "th" and "st" in 20th and 21st that would be helpful too thanks a ton.

BOB 652
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"Escape" the spaces, as in date +%B\ %d\ %Y.

vanadium
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In addition to @vanadium s specific solution, you can save the result of your function (system.exec_command() or anything else) in a string variable and use all of Python including the strings module functions, to manipulate that string in any desired way before emitting it from your script. You can use subprocess.check() instead if you have issues getting the results into a string to start with.

Joe
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