How to assign current date to a date field in odoo v8?

Question

I wanted to assign the current date to a date field 'start_date' in the following code:

calendar_obj.create(cr,uid,
             {'name' : rec_res.act_ion,
              'user_id' : rec_res.asgnd_to.id,
              'start_date' : lambda *a:datetime.today().strftime('%m-%d-%Y'),
              'stop_date' : rec_res.due_date,
              'allday' : True,
              'partner_ids' : [(6,0, [rec_res.asgnd_to.partner_id.id])]
             },
context=context)

How to set or assign the current date value to the start_date field ?

Answer 1

The Date field includes a today() method, just for cases like this:

'start_date': fields.Date.today(),

Of course you need to import fields first:

from openerp import fields