Is timezone.now().date a function or a callable?

Question

I'm writing a manager in Django 1.5. I want to return a QuerySet that contains objects with a start date either today or in the future. Based on this answer to a previous problem I presume my manager needs to use a callable rather than a function. I've written:

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return super(UpcomingEventManager, self).get_query_set().filter(date__gte=timezone.now().date)

I read that code as being a callable (date) that relies on a function (timezone.now()) for its value. But will Django treat it as a callable or a function?

I know I can test this by creating an object and waiting until tomorrow but I'd rather understand this fully.

Answer 1

Django 1.10 get today date:

>>> from django.utils import timezone
>>> timezone.now()
datetime.datetime(2016, 11, 29, 7, 23, 55, 924928, tzinfo=<UTC>)
>>> timezone.now().date
<built-in method date of datetime.datetime object at 0x7f42512b42a0>
>>> timezone.now().date()
datetime.date(2016, 11, 29)