execution_date in airflow: need to access as a variable

Question

I am really a newbie in this forum. But I have been playing with airflow, for sometime, for our company. Sorry if this question sounds really dumb.

I am writing a p

Answer 1

To print execution date inside the callable function of your PythonOperator you can use the following in your Airflow Script and also can add start_time and end_time as follows:

def python_func(**kwargs):
    ts = kwargs["execution_date"]
    end_time = str(ts)
    start_time = str(ts.add(minutes=-30))

I have converted the datetime value to string as I need to pass it in a SQL Query. We can use it otherwise also.