Best way at add date time stamp in directory of django image field

Till now i was using this function

def user_compressed_path(instance, filename):
    profile_pic_name = 'user/{0}/compressed/profile.jpg'.format(instance.id)
    full_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, profile_pic_name)
    if os.path.exists(full_path):
        os.remove(full_path)
    return profile_pic_name


def user_picture_path(instance, filename):
    profile_pic_name = 'user/{0}/picture/profile.jpg'.format(instance.id)
    full_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, profile_pic_name)
    if os.path.exists(full_path):
        os.remove(full_path)
    return profile_pic_name

i want path something like

'user/{0}/compressed/{1}/profile.jpg'.format(instance.id, date_time_stamp)

'user/{0}/picture/{1}/profile.jpg'.format(instance.id, date_time_stamp)

what should be the value of date_time_stamp

You can do something like this

import datetime


date = datetime.datetime.now().date()
time = datetime.datetime.now().time()

def user_compressed_path(instance, filename):
    profile_pic_name = f'user/{instance.id}/{date}/{time.strftime("%H:%M:%S")}/profile.jpg'
    full_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, profile_pic_name)
    if os.path.exists(full_path):
        os.remove(full_path)
    return profile_pic_name

this will return output like this assuming if instance have id 2 user/2/2021-12-12/10:45:09/profile.jpg

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