Detect if a variable is a datetime object

Question

I have a variable and I need to know if it is a datetime object.

So far I have been using the following hack in the function to detect datetime object:

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Answer 1

Note, that datetime.date objects aer not considered to be of datetime.datetime type, while datetime.datetime objects are considered to be of datetime.date type.

import datetime                                                                                                                     

today = datetime.date.today()                                                                                                       
now = datetime.datetime.now()                                                                                                       

isinstance(today, datetime.datetime)                                                                                                
>>> False

isinstance(now, datetime.datetime)                                                                                                  
>>> True

isinstance(now, datetime.date)                                                                                                      
>>> True

isinstance(now, datetime.datetime)                                                                                                  
>>> True