How to extract the year from a Python datetime object?

Question

I would like to extract the year from the current date using Python.

In C#, this looks like:

 DateTime a = DateTime.Now() 
 a.Year

What

Answer 1

import datetime
a = datetime.datetime.today().year

or even (as Lennart suggested)

a = datetime.datetime.now().year

or even

a = datetime.date.today().year