title: How to set a variable to be "Today's" date in Python/Pandas
body: <p>I am trying to set a variable to equal today's date.</p>
  
  <p>I looked this up and found a related article:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5023788/set-today-date-as-default-value-in-the-model">Set today date as default value in the model</a></p>
  
  <p>However, this didn't particularly answer my question.</p>
  
  <p>I used the suggested:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dt.date.today
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But after </p>
  
  <pre><code>import datetime as dt     
  date = dt.date.today
  print date
   &lt;built-in method today of type object at 0x000000001E2658B0&gt;
  
   Df['Date'] = date
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I didn't get what I actually wanted which as a clean date format of today's date...in Month/Day/Year.</p>
  
  <p>How can I create a variable of today's day in order for me to input that variable in a DataFrame?</p>