Question

I’m trying to make a object with the same year and month as the current date but change the day around to a different date in the month.

from datetime import timedelta, date, datetime


whole = date.today()
wholestr= str(whole)
vali = wholestr.split('-')
year=int(vali[0])
month=int(vali[1])
day=int(vali[2])
sub = datetime.date(year,month,16)
print sub

Here it says that ints work when constructing but I get an error saying that it needs a datetime.date obj and not ints.

http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#date-objects

Answer 1

I believe your problem is that you call datetime.date when you just want to call date in your second to last line. Changing to just using date gave me this result:

>>> from datetime import timedelta, date, datetime
>>> whole = date.today()
>>> wholestr = str(whole)
>>> vali = wholestr.split('-')
>>> year = int(vali[0])
>>> month = int(vali[1])
>>> day = int(vali[2])
>>> sub = date(year, month, 16)
>>> sub
datetime.date(2012, 4, 16)
>>> print sub
2012-04-16

Alternatively you could just call datetime like this:

>>> datetime(year, month, 16)
datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 16, 0, 0)

Personally, this is why I always prefer to just do import datetime.