Datetime.date() function in Python

Method Name:

date

 

Method Signature:

date()

 

Method Overview:

The date() instance method of the python datetime class returns a date instance.

Using this method only the date information excluding the time information is retrieved from a datetime instance.

 

Example:

import datetime

 

# Create a datetime instance

datetimeInstance = datetime.datetime.today()

 

# Get only the date instance from datetime instance

dateInstance = datetimeInstance.date()

 

# Print the datetime instance

print(datetimeInstance)

 

# Print the date instance

print(dateInstance)

 

Output:

2017-02-13 18:30:22.303811

2017-02-13

 

 


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