datetime.datetime.today()

[Nick Sarbicki]

> This surprised me today:
>
> >>> import datetime
> >>> datetime.datetime.today(), datetime.datetime.now()
> (datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 16, 8, 44, 7, 723560), datetime.datetime(2015,
> 9, 16, 8, 44, 7, 723577))
>
> I naively expected today() to always return a datetime.date object. Oh
> well, bug in my code has been squashed.
>

Just in the case you didn't figure it out:

 >>> datetime.datetime.today()
datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 16, 14, 50, 47, 700828)
>>> datetime.date.today()
datetime.date(2015, 9, 16)

You were accessing the today method of the datetime property which
inevitably returns a datetime object. Getting today from the date object
will return an actual date.

Now and today are very, very, similar - but now may be more accurate and
gives flexibility with timezones as per
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.now

- Nick
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