Python

Time

>>> import time
>>> time.time()
1491792653.410371
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
'2017-04-10 11:51:17'  
>>> datetime.datetime.utcnow()
datetime.datetime(2017, 4, 10, 2, 51, 34, 356682)
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2017, 4, 10, 11, 51, 36, 572681)
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%A, %d. %B %Y %I:%M%p")
'Monday, 10. April 2017 11:51AM'

[1]

is and ==

is is identity testing, == is equality testing. what happens in your code would be emulated in the interpreter like this:

>>> a = 'pub'
>>> b = ''.join(['p', 'u', 'b'])
>>> a == b
True
>>> a is b
False

[2]

Access index in for loop

for idx, val in enumerate(ints):
   print(idx, val)

[3]

Max integer

sys.maxint

[4]

Argument parsing

use argparse