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

You need to convert the date time object to a string.

The following code worked for me:

import datetime
collection = []
dateTimeString = str(datetime.date.today())
collection.append(dateTimeString)
print collection

Let me know if you need any more help.