How to set a variable to be “Today's” date in Python/Pandas

Question

I am trying to set a variable to equal today\'s date.

I looked this up and found a related article:

Set today date as default value in the model

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Answer 1

pd.datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

this will give output as '11/02/2019'

you can use add time if you want

pd.datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S")

this will give output as '11/02/2019 11:08:26'

strftime formats