How do I convert a datetime to date?

niklasfi picture niklasfi · Sep 18, 2010 · Viewed 630.1k times · Source

How do I convert a datetime.datetime object (e.g., the return value of datetime.datetime.now()) to a datetime.date object in Python?

Answer

ars picture ars · Sep 18, 2010

Use the date() method:

datetime.datetime.now().date()