Python Date functions

Importing datetime library

from datetime import date

Today's date

from  datetime import date
dt = date.today() 
print(dt)    # 2019-09-16

Getting day , month , year and weekday

Commonly used instances

from  datetime import date
print("Today day : ",date.today().day)
print("Today month : ",date.today().month)
print("Today year : ",date.today().year)
print("Today weekday : ",date.today().weekday())

Output

Today day :  16
Today month :  9
Today year :  2019
Today weekday :  0

More Instance methods:

toodinal()	Proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date
timetuple()	Details of date and time as a tuple
strftime()	String to datetime object
resolution()	Minimum difference between String to datetime object
replace()	Update date object with new parameters
max() & min()	Maximum and Minimum representable date
isoweekday()	Day of the week as integer
isocalendar()	ISO year, ISO week number & ISO weekday
fromtimestamp()	Getting date and time by using timestamp
fromordinal()	Getting date by using ordinal
fromisoformat()	Getting date by using iso fomat date string

Creating a date object

import datetime
dt=datetime.datetime(2019,5,24)
print(dt.day,dt.month,dt.year) # 24 5 2019

2nd Saturday	Display 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month
calendar	Calendar module to Create yearly or monthly Calendars

All timedelta objects relativedelta

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Python Date functions

Importing datetime library

Getting day , month , year and weekday

More Instance methods:

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