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

If you want the year from a (unknown) datetime-object:

tijd = datetime.datetime(9999, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59)

>>> tijd.timetuple()
time.struct_time(tm_year=9999, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31, tm_hour=23, tm_min=59, tm_sec=59, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=365, tm_isdst=-1)
>>> tijd.timetuple().tm_year
9999