create date in python without time

I need to get the current date without time and then compare that date with other entered by user

import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() 

Example

currentDate="01/08/2015" userDate="01/07/2015" if currentData > userDate: ......... else: ................... 

4 Answers

You can use datetime.date objects , they do not have a time part.

You can get current date using datetime.date.today() , Example -

now = datetime.date.today() 

This would give you an object of type - datetime.date . And you can get the date() part of a datetime object , by using the .date() method , and then you can compare both dates.

Example -

now = datetime.date.today() currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date() 

Then you can compare them.

Also, to convert the string to a date , you should use datetime.strptime() as I have used above , example -

currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date() 

This would cause, currentDate to be a datetime.date object.

Example/Demo -

>>> now = datetime.date.today() >>> currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date() >>> now > currentDate False >>> now < currentDate False >>> now == currentDate True 

If you want to compare dates, then compare dates, not strings. Use datetime.datetime.strptime() to parse the user's entered date.

import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() userDate = "01/07/2015" if datetime.datetime.strptime(userDate, '%m/%d/%Y') < now: ... 

Please try: datetime.today().date()

Result: datetime.date(2021, 6, 26)

In Python 3.9.5:

from datetime import datetime, time datetime.combine(datetime.now(), time.min) 

Which gives the result (if run on December 9, 2021):

datetime.date(2021, 12, 9) 

which is a datetime object.

As Anand S. Kumar's reply states, you should use datetime.strptime() to convert the user provided date to a datetime object as well. Then you can do simple comparison for equality (==), >, <, etc.