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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Dating Methods

Leo Marco Corpuz
Leo Marco Corpuz
18,975 Points

Datetime question

Lately, I’m not understanding why we’re using dot notation on datetime twice. (Example. datetime.datetime.now()). The answer for the the next challenge (second task) requires using dot notation twice on datetime before adding the strftime method.

2 Answers

diogorferreira
diogorferreira
19,363 Points

It was confusing at first to me too but to make it easier imagine we import datetime as dt. The module dt (datetime) has a method called datetime and others too such as date, time, timedelta, etc... From there you can call dt.datetime.now() or many others, here's some examples.

I recommend reading this explanation, explains it much better than I can

import datetime as dt 

dt.datetime.now()
dt.timedelta.days
dt.timedelta.seconds 
dt.date.strftime()