If I have a datetime object, how would I get the date as a string in the following format:

```
1/27/1982  # it cannot be 01/27/1982 as there can't be leading 0's

```

The current way I'm doing it is doing a .replace for all the digits (01, 02, 03, etc...) but this seems very inefficient and cumbersome. What would be a better way to accomplish this?