python formating the current date/time

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2013, 7, 16, 7, 12, 24, 491296)
>>> datetime.datetime.now().time()
datetime.time(7, 12, 45, 859333)
>>> str(datetime.datetime.now())
'2013-07-16 07:13:40.077304'

Drop all tables from Hive warehouse

Use it with caution, all tables will be droped. Non external tables' data will be lost.

hive -e 'show tables' | xargs -I '{}' hive -e 'drop table {}'