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Python- Parser the today's date out of Dateutil

I am working with Dateutil module in Python 3.4.1, and I'm trying to extract only the date part out of the code. For example 

from datetime import *
date.today()

Results in:

datetime.date(2014, 8, 2)

Is there a way to remove the front part and use the remaining numbers as a text or string? I'm trying to use this in conjunction with Tkinter's entry widgets, any help would be appreciated.

Solution 
  • from datetime import *
today = date.today()
print(today.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))

    will result in 

    '2014-08-03'

    Have a look at http://strftime.net/ for formatting help.