type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute 'datetime'

Question

I have gotten the following error:

type object \'datetime.datetime\' has no attribute \'datetime\'

On the following line:

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Answer 1

You should really import the module into its own alias.

import datetime as dt
my_datetime = dt.datetime(year, month, day)

The above has the following benefits over the other solutions:

• Calling the variable my_datetime instead of date reduces confusion since there is already a date in the datetime module (datetime.date).
• The module and the class (both called datetime) do not shadow each other.