python - Python3.4 datetime.today() and datetime.now()

Question

Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:43:06) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.today()
datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 30, 23, 17, 6, 937659)
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 30, 23, 17, 14, 378097)
>>>

In Python3.4 datetime.today() and datetime.now() What's the difference?

Answer 1

According to the document of datetime.now(tz=None):

Return the current local date and time. If optional argument tz is None or not specified, this is like today(), but, if possible, supplies more precision than can be gotten from going through a time.time() timestamp (for example, this may be possible on platforms supplying the C gettimeofday() function).

Else tz must be an instance of a class tzinfo subclass, and the current date and time are converted to tz‘s time zone. In this case the result is equivalent to tz.fromutc(datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=tz)).

Thus datetime.now() supplies more precision if possible.