[Python] Is there a way of generating 3 letters codes / abbreviations for time zones in python?

Obviously, printing now time, date and time zone is possible by using datetime and time module (one of many ways):

timezone_name = time.tzname[time.localtime().tm_isdst]

However I need to get 3 letter code for this specific time zone - not knowing beforehand in which time zone we are located in.

I checked many libraries (timezone, time, pytz etc.), however all of them base on either passing the time zone by oneself or generating the whole time zone name - not the abbreviation.

I wonder, is there any way of achieving that in python? Thank you for any help!

Of course the simplest way is extracting capitalized letters, but it is not so elegant:

time_zone = time.tzname[time.localtime().tm_isdst] tz_abbrev = ''.join([char for char in time_zone if char.isupper()])

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