Python: datetime.today().date() crashes in Django but runs in terminal -

i have following code in django app keeps crashing:

from datetime import *     date_today = datetime.today().date()

if run exact same code in terminal, works , prints datetime.date(2016, 11, 10)

the error when code run django:

attributeerror: 'module' object has no attribute 'today'

question: can make code run in django?

i guarantee not running exact code in django. certainly, did import datetime rather from datetime import *.

confusingly, datetime module contains class called datetime; class imported from ... syntax, , has today method.

doing import datetime imports module, not have method; instead need datetime.datetime.today().

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