Question

This isn’t the first time this has happened to me so now I’m looking for an answer because I’m completely stumped.

I have code running in a production environment for over 3 months now and it worked absolutely fine, then out of no where I started to get errors in python.

'method_descriptor' object has no attribute 'today'

Exception Value:    
'method_descriptor' object has no attribute 'today'
Exception Location: /admin/views/create.py in process, line 114

/admin/views/create.py in process
            order = Orders(uid=0, accepted=0, canview='', files=0, date=datetime.date.today(), due=dueDate, 

As you can see, I’m using the following which works absolutely fine from the python shell:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date.today()
>>> datetime.date(2011, 9, 27)

Answer 1

Your code is importing datetime.datetime somewhere, instead of just datetime, e.g. from datetime import datetime.

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.date.today()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'method_descriptor' object has no attribute 'today'