This bit me once. I was comparing a date to a datetime, both representing the
same day, so I expected them to be the same, but I was wrong. What I should
have done was extracting the date of the datetime with the .date() function,
and only then compare it to the other date:
>>> import datetime
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Nick Sarbicki
wrote:
> Just in the case you didn't figure it out:
>
> >>> datetime.datetime.today()
> datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 16, 14, 50, 47, 700828)
> >>> datetime.date.today()
> datetime.date(2015, 9, 16)
>
Yeah, I was aware of that. That is partly why I th
> This surprised me today:
>
> >>> import datetime
> >>> datetime.datetime.today(), datetime.datetime.now()
> (datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 16, 8, 44, 7, 723560), datetime.datetime(2015,
> 9, 16, 8, 44, 7, 723577))
>
> I naively expected today() to always return a datetime.date object. Oh
> well, bug
