How do I convert a datetime to date

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How do I convert a datetime datetime object  e g   the return value of datetime datetime now    to a datetime date object in Python

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Answer updated to Python 3 7 and more Here is how you can turn a date-and-time object  aka datetime datetime object  the one that is stored inside models DateTimeField django model field  into a date object  aka datetime date object   from datetime import datetime   your date-and-time object   let s supposed it is defined as datetime element   datetime 2020  7  10  12  56  54  324893     where   datetime element   datetime year  month  day  hour  minute  second  milliseconds     WHAT YOU WANT  your date-only object date element   datetime element date    And just to be clear  if you print those elements  here is the output   print datetime element    2020-07-10 12 56 54 324893   print date element    2020-07-10

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import time import datetime    use mktime to step by one day   end - the last day  numdays - count of days to step back def gen dates list end  numdays     start   end - datetime timedelta days numdays 1    end     int time mktime end timetuple       start   int time mktime start timetuple         86400 s   1 day   return xrange start  end  86400     if you need reverse the list of dates for dt in reversed gen dates list datetime datetime today    100        print datetime datetime fromtimestamp dt  date

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From the documentation   datetime datetime date   Return date object with same year  month and day

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You can convert a datetime object to a date with the date   method of the date time object  as follows    lt datetime object gt  date

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you could enter this code form for  today date  amp  Names of the Day  amp  hour    datetime datetime now   strftime   y- m- d  a  H  M  S     19-09-09 Mon 17 37 56   and enter this code for  today date simply   datetime date today   strftime   y- m- d     19-09-10   for object   datetime datetime now   date   datetime datetime today   date   datetime datetime utcnow   date   datetime datetime today   time   datetime datetime utcnow   date   datetime datetime utcnow   time

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You use the datetime datetime date   method   datetime datetime now   date     Obviously  the expression above can  and should IMHO    be written as   datetime date today

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Use the date   method  datetime datetime now   date

[python] How do I convert a datetime to date?

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