import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()

print(now.year)

2019

print (now.strftime("%y"))

19

print (now.strftime("%d"))

21

print (now.strftime("%m"))

04

print(datetime.datetime.today())

2019-04-21 18:34:57.280555

cur_date = datetime.date.today()
current_year = cur_date.year # Extract current year only
current_month = cur_date.month # Extract current month only
current_day = cur_date.day # Extract current day only

print(cur_date)

2019-04-21

print(current_month)

4

print(current_day)

21

current_date = cur_date.strftime("%d-%m-%Y")
print(current_date)

21-04-2019

current_date = cur_date.strftime("%d-%B-%Y")
print(current_date)

21-April-2019