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Coe Coe
Coe Coe

Reputation: 43

Why do I need to write "datetime" twice?

I am a beginner with python. In the following code, I imported the "datetime" module and I wanted to get current date and time. But why do I need to write "datetime" twice?

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 909

Answers (2)

Abhishek varpe
Abhishek varpe

Reputation: 1

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()

Python provides the datetime module to work with real dates and times. From that about code the first datetime is the module and other datetime is class and remaining (now) is the method.

Upvotes: 0

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531075

You are importing a module named datetime.

Due to an unfortunate lack of imagination, one of the classes defined in the datetime module is also named datetime. It is that class that defines a class method named now.

There are other classes defined in the module: datetime.date, datetime.time, datetime.timedelta, etc.

An alternate way of writing this is to import the name of the class directly into the local namespace.

from datetime import datetime

# Now 'datetime' refers to the class, not the module.
now = datetime.now()

Upvotes: 5

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