[Django]-Python – django: why am I getting this error: AttributeError: 'method_descriptor' object has no attribute 'today'?

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You probably want import datetime, not from datetime import datetime.

date is a class on the datetime module, but it is also a method on the datetime.datetime class.

👤Adam Vandenberg

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The top answer is correct, but if you don’t want to import all of datetime you can write

from datetime import date

and then replace

datetime.date.today()

with

date.today()
👤Joe

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You need do like this one (ipython output)

In [9]: datetime.today().date()
Out[9]: datetime.date(2011, 2, 5)

So need to be

def was_published_today(self):
        return self.pub_date.date() == datetime.today().date()
👤rootart

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