create date in python without time

In Python 3.9.5:

from datetime import datetime, time
datetime.combine(datetime.now(), time.min)

Which gives the result (if run on December 9, 2021):

datetime.date(2021, 12, 9)

which is a datetime object.

As Anand S. Kumar's reply states, you should use datetime.strptime() to convert the user provided date to a datetime object as well. Then you can do simple comparison for equality (==), >, <, etc.

Please try: datetime.today().date()

Result: datetime.date(2021, 6, 26)

You can use datetime.date objects , they do not have a time part.

You can get current date using datetime.date.today() , Example -

now = datetime.date.today()

This would give you an object of type - datetime.date . And you can get the date() part of a datetime object , by using the .date() method , and then you can compare both dates.

Example -

now = datetime.date.today()
currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()

Then you can compare them.

Also, to convert the string to a date , you should use datetime.strptime() as I have used above , example -

currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()

This would cause, currentDate to be a datetime.date object.

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Example/Demo -

>>> now = datetime.date.today()
>>> currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()
>>> now > currentDate
False
>>> now < currentDate
False
>>> now == currentDate
True