Python - simplest and most coherent way to get timezone-aware current time in UTC?

Question

datetime.now() doesn\'t appear to have timezone info attached. I want the current time in UTC. What do I do?

>>> from datetime import         


        

Answer 1

I use pytz

Then use the following bit of code

import pytz
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo = pytz.utc)