In [6]: d = datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 2) ...: print(type(d)) ...: print(d) ...: print(d.year, d.month, d.day, d.hour, d.minute, d.second) ...: ...: <type 'datetime.datetime'> 2009-01-02 00:00:00 (2009, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0)