How to print a date in a regular format?

Question

This is my code:

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
print(today)

This prints: 2008-11-22 which is exactly what I wa

Answer 1

Use date.strftime. The formatting arguments are described in the documentation.

This one is what you wanted:

some_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

This one takes Locale into account. (do this)

some_date.strftime('%c')