PYTHON change datetime.date.today()

Question

Currently when using datetime.date.today() the today's date is returned as YYYY-MM-DD I would like to return it as YYYY,MM,DD as I would like to automate the date that is used in the MT5 copy rates function

mt5.copy_rates_from(EURUSD, mt5.TIMEFRAME_H4, yyyy,mm,dd, 200)

I would like to calculate the date with out having to manually type it in but if I use datetime.date.today() the code does not work.

Automate the date with out manually typing it in.

Answer 1

You can get year, month, and day separately by using the method timetuple() of date. The function, however, returns a tuple with 9 items. You can get the first three by doing:

yyyy, mm, dd = datetime.date.today().timetuple()[:3]

[:3] means the first three values of the list. Each variable is assigned to the corresponding value of the list.

The values are returned as ints, not strings.