[SOLVED] Datetime 'has no attribute now'

Datetime 'has no attribute now'

I'm trying to write a simple program to print the current date with Python 3.4. In the shell, I can import datetime, and use now() but when I write a script with a class it fails and gives this error:

"AttributeError: module object has no attribute now".

Can anyone help explain the problem? This is my code:

import datetime

class Date:
    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.writeToFile(filename)

    def date(self):
        now = datetime.datetime.now()
        return now

    def writeToFile(self, filename):
        date = self.date()

        file = open(filename, 'w')
        file.write(date)
        for i in range(20):             # simply test for writting in file
            file.write(str(i)+'\t')
        file.close()
        return file

d = Date('datetime.txt')

Solution

Make sure you are importing the intended datetime module, and it is not being overridden by local files with same name. you can check it with:

import datetime
print(datetime.__file__)

and check the output if it is pointing to the correct directory you want.