python - can't compare datetime.datetime to datetime.date

Question

I have the following code and am getting the above error. Since I'm new to python I'm having trouble understanding the syntax here and how I can fix the error:

if not start or date < start: start = date

Answer 1

There is a datetime.date() method for converting from a datetime to a date.

To do the opposite conversion, you could use this function datetime.datetime(d.year, d.month, d.day)