Nameerror: Name 'Datetime' Is Not Defined
I'm Teaching Myself Python and Was Just "Exploring". Google Says That Datetime Is a Global Variable but When I Try to Find Today's Date in the Terminal I...
I'm teaching myself Python and was just "exploring". Google says that datetime is a global variable but when I try to find todays date in the terminal I receive the NameError in the question title?
mynames-MacBook:pythonhard myname$ python
Enthought Canopy Python 2.7.3 | 64-bit | (default, Aug 8 2013, 05:37:06)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
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>>> date = datetime.date.today()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'datetime' is not defined
>>>
2 Answers
You need to import the module datetime first:
>>> import datetime
After that it works:
>>> import datetime
>>> date = datetime.date.today()
>>> date
datetime.date(2013, 11, 12)
It can also be used as below:
from datetime import datetime
start_date = datetime(2016,3,1)
end_date = datetime(2016,3,10)
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