How to set a variable to be “Today's” date in Python/Pandas

Question

I am trying to set a variable to equal today\'s date.

I looked this up and found a related article:

Set today date as default value in the model

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Answer 1

Easy solution in Python3+:

import time


todaysdate = time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

#with '.' isntead of '/'
todaysdate = time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y")