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TypeError: descriptor 'date' for 'datetime.datetime' objects doesn't apply to a 'datetime.date' object

So I am trying to convert a YYYY-MM-DD string into a English format as: WEEKDAY DDth MONTH YEAR However I am having issue converting the string into a date format which I believe is YYYY, MM, DD .

Here is my code:

from datetime import datetime, date
[...]
def getHumanDate(rawdate):
    the_date = date(int(rawdate[0:4]), int(rawdate[6:7]), int(rawdate[9:10]))
    weekday = (datetime.date(the_date).strftime('%A'))
    month = (datetime.date(the_date).strftime('%B'))
    year = int(rawdate[0:4])
    day = int(rawdate[9:10])
    english = weekday + " " + day + "th of " + month + " " + year
    return english
I am getting a TypeError: descriptor 'date' for 'datetime.datetime' objects doesn't apply to a 'datetime.date' object error which I frankly can't wrap my head around.
Any help would be appreciated!
Cheers
Edit: Here is a working example using the Calendar library, although completely different, it works!
import calendar
[...]
def getHumanDate(rawdate):
    int_year = int(rawdate[0:4])
    int_month = int(rawdate[6:7])
    int_day = int(rawdate[9:10])
    week_days=["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday"]
    months=["", "January","February","March","April","May","June","July", "August","September","October","November","December"]
    weekday = calendar.weekday(int_year, int_month, int_day)
    english = week_days[weekday] + " " + str(int_day) + "th of " + months[int_month] + " " + str(int_year)
    return English
                Does this answer your question? TypeError: descriptor 'date' for 'datetime.datetime' objects doesn't apply to a 'int' object
– Joundill
                Jun 8, 2022 at 0:00
If you use the strptime function from datetime you get the added advantage of implicit validation of the parameter being pass to your function. Therefore, I suggest this:
from datetime import datetime
dsuffix = [None, 'st', 'nd', 'rd', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'st', 'nd', 'rd', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'th', 'st']
def getHumanDate(date): # parameter is expect in ISO format YYYY-MM-DD
    d = datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d')
    a = datetime.strftime(d, '%A')
    b = datetime.strftime(d, '%B %Y')
    return f'{a} {d.day}{dsuffix[d.day]} {b}'
for i in range(1, 32):
    d = f'2021-12-{i}'
    print(getHumanDate(d))
                @MrFuppes I did look at that and it's very clever but less efficient than a straight lookup due to all the calculations it has to make. Concise isn't always best
– DarkKnight
                Dec 19, 2021 at 19:19
                Yes, named lambdas aren't exactly PEP8 either... direct lookup on the other might be most efficient, but readability suffers as well imho, as long as you don't hide the lookup table itself from the reader of the code
– FObersteiner
                Dec 20, 2021 at 6:04
                In conclusion I think I'll have a separate column in my database for  "human readable date" instead of doing this every single time it loads a date....
– Matthieu B
                Dec 20, 2021 at 14:40
        
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