Appendix I — Dates and Times with the datetime Module

from datetime import date, datetime

today = date.today()
print(type(today))
print(today)

<class 'datetime.date'>
2025-07-18

now = datetime.now()
print(type(now))
print(now)

<class 'datetime.datetime'>
2025-07-18 18:02:27.555812