Python date1

datetime

Python date and time module.
To use this, please import datetime

import datetime

Sample

import datetime

# Date
today = datetime.date.today()
todaytime  = datetime.datetime.today()

print(today)
print(todaytime)

# We can get element
print(dir(today))
print(today.year)
print(today.day)
print(today.weekday())

print(today.isoformat())
print(todaytime.strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"))

Result

2016-05-02
2016-05-02 09:42:19.927371
['__add__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__radd__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rsub__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', 'ctime', 'day', 'fromordinal', 'fromtimestamp', 'isocalendar', 'isoformat', 'isoweekday', 'max', 'min', 'month', 'replace', 'resolution', 'strftime', 'timetuple', 'today', 'toordinal', 'weekday', 'year']
2016
2
0
2016-05-02
2016/05/02 09:42:19

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