date.toordinal() Date proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date starting from Jan 1 year 1

toordinal : Return Proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date starting with 1 as January 1 of year 1.

How ordinal is used to get date by using fromordinal()

Today's ordinal vlaue

from  datetime import date
my_ordinal=date.today().toordinal()
print("Today toordinal value : ",my_ordinal)

Output

Today toordinal value :  737319

Getting todays and tomorrows toordinal. We used timedelta here to get tomorrow's date object.

from datetime import date,datetime, timedelta 
print("Today toordinal : ",date.today().today().toordinal())
tomorrow=date.today() + timedelta(days=1)
print("Tomorrow toordinal : ",tomorrow.toordinal())

Output is here

Today toordinal :  737319
Tomorrow toordinal :  737320

We can create a date object and then get the value

import datetime
dt=datetime.datetime(2019,5,24) # Year , Month , date as input
print(dt.toordinal())

Output

We can check the above data ( todays date )

dt=datetime.datetime(2019,9,16) # Year , Month , date as input
print(dt.toordinal())

Output

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