TypeError: 'datetime.datetime' object is not callable
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25275094This is misleading terminology. You certainly can call a variable; d = datetime.strptime; d('2014', '%Y').For that matter, date was already a variable, it's just that it used to name the date class, which was callable, and now it names a datetime instance, which is not. And if you meant "object" or "instance" or something like that, that doesn't work either; any class can define a __call__ ...