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Creating date objects

datetime module Creating date objects

You can instantiate date objects from the date class. A date object represents a date (year, month and day). You can also instantiate a datetime object from the datetime class. A datetime object represents a date + time (year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds).

import datetime

d = datetime.date(2014, 9, 7)
dt = datetime.datetime(2020, 12, 24, 22, 9, 24)
print(d)
print(dt)
Output
2014-09-07
2020-12-24 22:09:24
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