Getting today s date in YYYY-MM-DD in Python

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I m using   str datetime datetime today    split   0    to return today s date in the YYYY-MM-DD format   Is there a less crude way to achieve this

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Datetime is just lovely if you like remembering funny codes. Wouldn't you prefer simplicity?

>>> import arrow
>>> arrow.now().format('YYYY-MM-DD')
'2017-02-17'

This module is clever enough to understand what you mean.

Just do pip install arrow.

Addendum: In answer to those who become exercised over this answer let me just say that arrow represents one of the alternative approaches to dealing with dates in Python. That's mostly what I meant to suggest.

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This works  from datetime import date today  date today    Output in this time  2020-08-29 Additional  this year   date today   year this month   date today   month this day   date today   day print today  print this year  print this month  print this day

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I always use the isoformat   function for this   from datetime import date     today   date today   isoformat   print today     2018-12-05    Note that this also works on datetime objects if you need the time in standard format as well   from datetime import datetime now   datetime today   isoformat   print now     2018-12-05T11 15 55 126382

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my code is a little complicated but I use it a lot strftime  quot  y  m  d quot   localtime time time      reference  https   strftime org  you can look at the reference to make anything you want for you what YYYY-MM-DD just change my code to  strftime  quot  Y- m- d quot   localtime time time

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You can use datetime date today   and convert the resulting datetime date object to a string   from datetime import date today   str date today    print today       2017-12-26

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You can use strftime   gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime today   strftime   Y- m- d    2021-01-26   Additionally  for anyone also looking for a zero-padded Hour  Minute  and Second at the end   Comment by Gabriel Staples   gt  gt  gt  datetime today   strftime   Y- m- d- H  M  S    2021-01-26-16 50 03

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from datetime import datetime  date   datetime today   date    print date

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You can use    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import date  gt  gt  gt  date today     str      2019-10-05

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Are you working with Pandas  You can use pd to datetime from the pandas library  Here are various options  depending on what you want returned  import pandas as pd  pd to datetime  today      pd to datetime  now     Timestamp  2019-03-27 00 00 10 958567    As a python datetime object  pd to datetime  today   to pydatetime     datetime datetime 2019  4  18  3  50  42  587629   As a formatted date string  pd to datetime  today   isoformat      2019-04-18T04 03 32 493337     Or   strftime  for custom formats  pd to datetime  today   strftime   Y- m- d      2019-03-27   To get just the date from the timestamp  call Timestamp date  pd to datetime  today   date     datetime date 2019  3  27   Aside from to datetime  you can directly instantiate a Timestamp object using  pd Timestamp  today      pd Timestamp  now     Timestamp  2019-04-18 03 43 33 233093    pd Timestamp  today   to pydatetime     datetime datetime 2019  4  18  3  53  46  220068   If you want to make your Timestamp timezone aware  pass a timezone to the tz argument  pd Timestamp  now   tz  America Los Angeles     Timestamp  2019-04-18 03 59 02 647819-0700   tz  America Los Angeles     Yet another date parser library  Pendulum This one s good  I promise  If you re working with pendulum  there are some interesting choices  You can get the current timestamp using now   or today s date using today    import pendulum   pendulum now     DateTime 2019  3  27  0  2  41  452264  tzinfo Timezone  America Los Angeles     pendulum today     DateTime 2019  3  27  0  0  0  tzinfo Timezone  America Los Angeles     Additionally  you can also get tomorrow   or yesterday   s date directly without having to do any additional timedelta arithmetic  pendulum yesterday     DateTime 2019  3  26  0  0  0  tzinfo Timezone  America Los Angeles     pendulum tomorrow     DateTime 2019  3  28  0  0  0  tzinfo Timezone  America Los Angeles     There are various formatting options available  pendulum now   to date string      2019-03-27   pendulum now   to formatted date string      Mar 27  2019   pendulum now   to day datetime string      Wed  Mar 27  2019 12 04 AM    Rationale for this answer A lot of pandas users stumble upon this question because they believe it is a python question more than a pandas one  This answer aims to be useful to folks who are already using these libraries and would be interested to know that there are ways to achieve these results within the scope of the library itself  If you are not working with pandas or pendulum already  I definitely do not recommend installing them just for the sake of running this code  These libraries are heavy and come with a lot of plumbing under the hood  It is not worth the trouble when you can use the standard library instead

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I prefer this  because this is simple  but maybe somehow inefficient and buggy  You must check the exit code of shell command if you want a strongly error-proof program   os system  date   Y- m- d

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Very late answer  but you can simply use  import time today   time strftime  quot  Y- m- d quot     2021-02-18

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To get day number from date is in python for example 19-12-2020 dd-mm-yyy order date we need 19 as output order  day     order  Order Date   apply lambda x  x day

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