How to set a variable to be Today s date in Python Pandas

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I am trying to set a variable to equal today s date   I looked this up and found a related article   Set today date as default value in the model  However  this didn t particularly answer my question   I used the suggested   dt date today   But after   import datetime as dt      date   dt date today print date   lt built-in method today of type object at 0x000000001E2658B0 gt    Df  Date     date   I didn t get what I actually wanted which as a clean date format of today s date   in Month Day Year   How can I create a variable of today s day in order for me to input that variable in a DataFrame

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You can also look into pandas Timestamp  which includes methods like  now and  today  Unlike pandas to datetime  now    pandas Timestamp now   won t default to UTC     import pandas as pd    pd Timestamp now     will return California time     Timestamp  2018-12-19 09 17 07 693648      pd to datetime  now     will return UTC time     Timestamp  2018-12-19 17 17 08

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i got the same problem so tried so many things  but finally this is the solution   import time   print  time strftime   d  m  Y

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If you want a string mm dd yyyy instead of the datetime object  you can use strftime  string format time     gt  gt  gt  dt datetime today   strftime   m  d  Y                          note parentheses  02 12 2014

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Using pandas  pd Timestamp  today   strftime   m  d  Y

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pd datetime now   strftime   d  m  Y     this will give output as  11 02 2019   you can use add time if you want      pd datetime now   strftime   d  m  Y  I  M  S     this will give output as  11 02 2019 11 08 26   strftime formats

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You mention you are using Pandas  in your title    If so  there is no need to use an external library  you can just use to datetime  gt  gt  gt  pandas to datetime  today   normalize   Timestamp  2015-10-14 00 00 00    This will always return today s date at midnight  irrespective of the actual time  and can be directly used in pandas to do comparisons etc  Pandas always includes 00 00 00 in its datetimes  Replacing today with now would give you the date in UTC instead of local time  note that in neither case is the tzinfo  timezone  added  In pandas versions prior to 0 23 x  normalize may not have been necessary to remove the non-midnight timestamp

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Easy solution in Python3    import time   todaysdate   time strftime   d  m  Y     with     isntead of     todaysdate   time strftime   d  m  Y

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import datetime def today date                utils      get the datetime of today             date datetime datetime now   date       date pd to datetime date      return date Df  Date     today date     this could be safely used in pandas dataframes

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