import calendar
from datetime import date
current_month_name = calendar.month_name[date.today().month]
# the variable will hold something like 'April'
#if you want the abbreviated version:
current_month_name_abbreviated = calendar.month_abbr[date.today().month]
# the variable will hold something like 'Apr' now instead of 'April'
from datetime import datetime
current_month = datetime.now().strftime('%m') // 02 //This is 0 padded
current_month_text = datetime.now().strftime('%h') // Feb
current_month_text = datetime.now().strftime('%B') // February
current_day = datetime.now().strftime('%d') // 23 //This is also padded
current_day_text = datetime.now().strftime('%a') // Fri
current_day_full_text = datetime.now().strftime('%A') // Friday
current_weekday_day_of_today = datetime.now().strftime('%w') //5 Where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday.
current_year_full = datetime.now().strftime('%Y') // 2018
current_year_short = datetime.now().strftime('%y') // 18 without century
current_second= datetime.now().strftime('%S') //53
current_minute = datetime.now().strftime('%M') //38
current_hour = datetime.now().strftime('%H') //16 like 4pm
current_hour = datetime.now().strftime('%I') // 04 pm
current_hour_am_pm = datetime.now().strftime('%p') // 4 pm
current_microseconds = datetime.now().strftime('%f') // 623596 Rarely we need.
current_timzone = datetime.now().strftime('%Z') // UTC, EST, CST etc. (empty string if the object is naive).
Use:
from datetime import datetime
today = datetime.today()
datem = datetime(today.year, today.month, 1)
I assume you want the first of the month.