how to get the day of a date in python code example

Example 1: python date get day

import datetime
dt = datetime.datetime.today()
year = dt.year
month = dt.month
day = dt.day

Example 2: datetimes to day of year python

>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> print today
2009-03-06 15:37:02.484000
>>> today.strftime('%j')
'065'