Every programming language required to get a date for development (if required). So how you will get the date in python programming? Python Date Function is provided in a DateTime module, you have to import it.
In this tutorial, you will learn about how to get the current date with format. Also some example of getting a year, month and day of the month.
Syntax
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import datetime date = datetime.datetime.now().date() |
Python Date Function Example
In this example, you will get a simple date in a year-month-day format.
if must have to import a DateTime module to get a date. Then use a date() or today() function.
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import datetime datenow = datetime.datetime.now().date() print('Date', datenow) |
Output: Date 2018-10-09
Another Example to get a date
In this example, The date contains the year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond. By removing .date() function you will get all the time and date.
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import datetime dateAll = datetime.datetime.now() print('Date', dateAll) |
Output: Date 2018-10-09 15:14:35.969381
Get the Year, Month and Day
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import datetime dateAll = datetime.datetime.now() print('Year ', dateAll.year) print('Month ', dateAll.month) print('Day ', dateAll.day) |
Output: Year 2018
Month 10
Day 9
QA: How to convert datetime to date in Python?
In a python you can convert datetime to date with Use the date() method:
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datetime.datetime.now().date() |
See details in the upper part of the tutorial.
Here is also another method to get date form datetime. Using the Python today() function.
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import datetime datenow = datetime.date.today() print('Date ', datenow) |
Do comment if you have any doubt and suggestion on this tutorial.
Note : This example (Project) is developed in PyCharm 2018.2 (Community Edition)
JRE: 1.8.0
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.13.6Python 3.7
All examples are in Python 3, so it may change its different from python 2 or upgraded versions.
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