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How to Get Current Year in Python 3

In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the current year in python 3 using the datetime module.

To get the current year, we need to import the datetime submodule from the datetime module.

from datetime import datetime

After importing the datetime module, we can print the current year as follows:

from datetime import datetime

print(datetime.today().year)

If you want to get the current year in two-digit format, use the .strftime method as follows:

print(datetime.today().strftime("%y"))

How it works…

In the earlier example, first, we imported the datetime submodule, which is part of the datetime module (both the main module and sub-module have the same name).

Python 3 datetime submodule comes with a method called today(), which holds information about the current time.

We want the current year, which we can get by appending .year to the today() method.

from datetime import datetime

print(datetime.today().year)

The same way we can get the current month, day, hour, minute, and second.

from datetime import datetime

current_year =  datetime.today().year #Current Year
current_month =  datetime.today().month #Current Month
current_day =  datetime.today().day #Current Day
current_hour =  datetime.today().hour #Current Hour
current_minute =  datetime.today().minute #Current Minute
current_second =  datetime.today().second #Current Second

In the above Python code, we stored the current year, month, and date in separate variables.