Error on a code in Tutorial 01

[Wagner Macedo]

I'm learning Python and Django, and in tutorial 01, on url ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/#intro-tutorial01, I think the code that's adding a custom method in the Poll class is wrong. Where is written:

import datetime
# ...
class Poll(models.Model):
    # ...
    def was_published_today(self):
        return self.pub_date.date() == datetime.date.today()

should be:

import datetime
# ...
class Poll(models.Model):
    # ...
    def was_published_today(self):
        return self.pub_date.date() == datetime.today().date()

The error is in the order today date invocation.

Sorry for my poor english, I'm brazillian.

[Karen Tracey]

The tutorial code is correct. Try it in a Python shell:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date.today()
datetime.date(2010, 8, 3)

The proposed change does not work:

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

Using the today() constructor of the datetime.datetime class instead of trying it on the datetime module (yes, this is a bit confusing in Python) would work:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.today().date()
datetime.date(2010, 8, 3)
>>>

But the existing code is simpler and works, so is preferable.

[Wagner Macedo]

Sorry for annoy by this ticket. The tutorial code is right, but with me didn't work because I was using Eclipse to edit the code and the autocompletion of datetime added incorrectly the import

from django.utils.datetime_safe import datetime

that uses datetime instance