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sidni ahmed
3,329 Pointsgetting datetime without creating variable
in this video we have made variables:
now = datetime.datetime.now() today = datetime.datetime.today()
by creating these variables we can do things like:
now.date() now.timestamp today.hour today.month
my question is that here we have made variables, but is there a way just to get the same output as 'now' and 'today' by just accessing the datetime library and not creating a variable. how would you do this? Thanks
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsYou can access the values by using the datetime methods directly;
# print 'now'
print(datetime.datetime.now())
# print date
print(datetime.datetime.now().date())
# print hour
print(datetime.datetime.today().hour)
# print month
print(datetime.datetime.today().month)
Richard Supak
9,614 PointsAs Chris stated above, you can access the methods directly, but remember, when you store the value in a variable, you're storing a particular value called by that method. now = datetime.datetime.now() will always return the save value as long as you don't reassign now, whereas calling the method directly gives back the value at that time, each time.