Why does datetime.datetime.utcnow() not contain timezone information?

Question

datetime.datetime.utcnow()

Why does this datetime not have any timezone info given that it is explicitly a UTC datetime?

I would expect that this would contain tzinfo.

Answer 1

The meaning of datetime.datetime.utcnow() means it is timezone naive, so you can't use it with datetime.astimezone

you can give it a timezone like this

import pytz 

pytz u = datetime.utcnow() 

u = u.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)