the Gravity of Python 2

[Ben Finney]

Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran at gmail.com> writes:

> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> > How, in Python, do you get an aware UTC datetime object?
>
> My local copy of the python 3.2.3 docs says:
>
> classmethod datetime.utcnow()
>
>     Return the current UTC date and time, with tzinfo None. This is
>     like now(), but returns the current UTC date and time, as a naive
>     datetime object. An aware current UTC datetime can be obtained by
>     calling datetime.now(timezone.utc). See also now().
>
> Hope this helps.

No, that won't do what was asked. The ‘datetime.datetime.utcnow’
function explicitly returns a naive datetime object, not an aware
datetime object.

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