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Question

I had a problem with the Django tutorial so I asked a question here. No-one knew the answer, but I eventually figured it out with help from Robert. Python seems to be trea

Answer 1

The problem in the latter snippet is with this part of your code:

return (self.pub_date() == datetime.date.today())

self.pub_date contains a datetime.datetime instance. It's not callable like that. For example:

>>> import datetime
>>> d = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> d()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: 'datetime.datetime' object is not callable
>>>

If you want to compare only the date, you should call it thus:

return (self.pub_date.date() == datetime.date.today())