create date in python without time

Question

I need to get the current date without time and then compare that date with other entered by user

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()

Example

currentDate="01/08/2015"
userDate="01/07/2015"
if currentData > userDate:
 .........
else:
  ...................

Answer 1

You can use datetime.date objects , they do not have a time part.

You can get current date using datetime.date.today() , Example -

now = datetime.date.today()

This would give you an object of type - datetime.date . And you can get the date() part of a datetime object , by using the .date() method , and then you can compare both dates.

Example -

now = datetime.date.today()
currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()

Then you can compare them.

Also, to convert the string to a date , you should use datetime.strptime() as I have used above , example -

currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()

This would cause, currentDate to be a datetime.date object.

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Example/Demo -

>>> now = datetime.date.today()
>>> currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()
>>> now > currentDate
False
>>> now < currentDate
False
>>> now == currentDate
True