title: NameError: name 'datetime' is not defined
body: <p>I'm teaching myself Python and was just "exploring". Google says that datetime is a global variable but when I try to find todays date in the terminal I receive the NameError in the question title?</p>
  
  <pre><code>mynames-MacBook:pythonhard myname$ python
  Enthought Canopy Python 2.7.3 | 64-bit | (default, Aug  8 2013, 05:37:06) 
  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; date = datetime.date.today()
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  NameError: name 'datetime' is not defined
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 
  </code></pre>