Changing date format from year month day

Question

Using the following to calculate today's date. import datetime

today = datetime.date.today()
print(today)

It returns the date in format of 2020-04-08 However I need it in the format of 4/8/20

How might I accomplish this?

Answer 1

Use - to remove the leading zeros from day and month:

from datetime import date

d = date.today().strftime("%-m/%-d/%y")
print(d)

If you use Windows, change the format string to "%#m/%#d/%y"

Answer 2

try this

from datetime import date

today = date.today().strftime("%m/%d/%y")
print(today)