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class date – Represent a date

date objects support equality and comparison operators.

class datetime.date(year, month, day)

All arguments are required. Arguments must be integers, in the following ranges:

• MINYEAR <= year <= MAXYEAR

• 1 <= month <= 12

• 1 <= day <= number of days in the given month and year

Other constructors:

classmethod today()

classmethod fromtimestamp(timestamp)

classmethod fromordinal(ordinal)

classmethod fromisoformate(date_string)

Class attributes:

min

The earliest representable date, date(MINYEAR, 1, 1).

max

The latest representable date, date(MAXYEAR, 12, 31).

resolution

The smallest possible difference between non-equal date objects, timedelta(days=1) .

Instance attributes:

year

month

day

Instance methods

replace(year=self.year, month=self.month, day=self.day)

Return a new date object with the same values but the specified parameters updated.

tuple()

Return the date as a tuple (year, month, day)

timetuple()

Return the date as a 9-tuple

toordinal()

Return an integer representing the ordinal of the date, where January 1st of year 1 has ordinal 1.

isoformat()

Return a string representing the date in ISO 8601 format, YYYY-MM-DD:

from datetime import date
date(2002, 12, 4).isoformat()
# outputs '2002-12-04'

isoweekday()

Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7.

weekday()

Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.