datetime Module

from datetime import datetime

today = datetime.now()
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2022-01-16 19:27:28.388759

from datetime import datetime

date = datetime(year=2022, month=1, date=16)

Appendix

W3schools Python Datetime

The strftime() Method

• The datetime object has a method for formatting date objects into readable strings. The method is called strftime(), and takes one parameter, format, to specify the format of the returned string

from datetime import datetime

x = datetime(2018, 6, 1)

print(x.strftime("%Y%m%d"))

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