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Python Datetime | Date constructor
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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In Python, we can instatiate date objects using the date constructor. A date object represents a date(year, month, day) in the current Gregorian calendar.
Examples
Creating a date object
The constructor for a date object is date(year, month, day):
from datetime import dated = date(2020,4,3)print(d)
2020-04-03
Getting date from a date string
Python's date.fromisoformat(~) method converts a date string in YYYY-MM-DD format to a date object.
from datetime import date
date = date.fromisoformat('2020-05-20')print(date)print(type(date))
2020-05-20<class 'datetime.date'>
We can see the string '2020-05-20' has now been converted to a date object.
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Official Python Documentation
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.date
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