getting system date

[Terry Reedy]

"Psybar Phreak" <psybar_phreak at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> what type is that result?

I know this was answered for you, but to be successful with Python,
learn to use the interpreter interactively and especially the
type(obj) builtin function.  'print type(x)' is also an important
debugging tool in pre-written scripts.

TJR