How can I check if a date is the same day as datetime today

Question

This condition always evaluates to True even if it s the same day because it is comparing time   from datetime import datetime         if date num posts  lt  datetime today       How can I check if a date is the same day as datetime today

User · Answer

If you need to compare only day of month value than you can use the following code:
```
if yourdate.day == datetime.today().day:
    # do something
```
If you need to check that the difference between two dates is acceptable then you can use timedelta:
```
if (datetime.today() - yourdate).days == 0:
    #do something
```

And if you want to compare date part only than you can simply use:

from datetime import datetime, date
if yourdatetime.date() < datetime.today().date()
    # do something

Note that timedelta has the following format:

datetime.timedelta([days[, seconds[, microseconds[, milliseconds[, minutes[, hours[, weeks]]]]]]])

So you are able to check diff in days, seconds, msec, minutes and so on depending on what you really need:

from datetime import datetime
if (datetime.today() - yourdate).days == 0:
    #do something

In your case when you need to check that two dates are exactly the same you can use timedelta(0):

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
if (datetime.today() - yourdate) == timedelta(0):
    #do something

User · Answer

all getattr someTime x   getattr today   x  for x in   year   month   day      One should compare using  date    but I leave this method as an example in case one wanted to  for example  compare things by month or by minute  etc

User · Answer

You can set the hours  minutes  seconds and microseconds to whatever you like  datetime datetime today   replace hour 0  minute 0  second 0  microsecond 0    but trutheality s answer is probably best when they are all to be zero and you can just compare the  date  s of the times  Maybe it is faster though if you have to compare hundreds of datetimes because you only need to do the replace   once vs hundreds of calls to date

User · Answer

If you want to just compare dates   yourdatetime date    lt  datetime today   date     Or  obviously   yourdatetime date      datetime today   date     If you want to check that they re the same date   The documentation is usually helpful  It is also usually the first google result for python thing i have a question about  Unless your question is about a function module named  snake    Basically  the datetime module has three types for storing a point in time    date for year  month  day of month time for hours  minutes  seconds  microseconds  time zone info datetime combines date and time  It has the methods date   and time   to get the corresponding date and time objects  and there s a handy combine function to combine date and time into a datetime

[python] How can I check if a date is the same day as datetime.today()?

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