Python: use datetime and ephem to get date only (without time)-CodePudding

I'm pretty new to python and I'm currently trying to write a code for a small project. My problem is that when I execute my code I get the date time and I'm only interested in the date. I've tried googling the problem but haven't found a solution for using datetime and ephem together (I have to use ep.date(datetime(year, month, day)) so I can use the input date with other dates that I get from ephem).

This is a small example code of what I'm doing:

from datetime import datetime
import ephem as ep #explanation

input_date =input("Please enter the date you you'd like to know the moon phase for in the YYYY-MM-DD format: " )
year, month, day = map(int, input_date.split('-'))
datetime(int(year), int(month), int(day))
new_date = ep.date(datetime(year, month, day))

print(new_date)

And this is my output: https://i.stack.imgur.com/0VJQM.png

If you click on the link you'll see that I get 2020/2/2 00:00:00 for the input 2020-2-2, it doesn't make my code stop working, but because I'll display this date quite often, I'd like to remove the time and only have the date.

CodePudding user response：

You can use ‘from datetime import date’ instead of ‘datetime’

CodePudding user response：

If you just need to display the date and don't need further calculations, you can convert the ephem Date type back into a Python datetime type, then convert the Python datetime into a date.

from datetime import datetime
import ephem as ep #explanation

input_date =input("Please enter the date you you'd like to know the moon phase for in the YYYY-MM-DD format: " )
year, month, day = map(int, input_date.split('-'))
ephem_date = ep.date(datetime(year, month, day))
python_date_only = new_date.datetime().date()

print(python_date_only)