Python: how can I check whether an object is of type datetime.date?

Question

I have tried a few obvious options but none of them works:

In [150]: x
Out[150]: datetime.date(2012, 9, 1)

In [151]: type(x)
Out[151]: datetime.date

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Answer 1

If your existing code is already relying on from datetime import datetime, you can also simply also import date

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, date
print isinstance(datetime.today().date(), date)