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How to Format Data with Python's datetime and JSON Helpers

A beginner-friendly set of helper functions to format dates and safely read/write JSON files in Python.

datetime json files
Python 
from datetime import datetime
from pathlib import Path
import json


def format_today(pattern: str = "%Y-%m-%d") -> str:
    """Return today's date formatted with the given pattern."""
    return datetime.now().strftime(pattern)


def load_json(file_path: str) -> dict:
    """Read and parse a JSON file safely."""
    …
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