Thonny datetime

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date.today() will return datetetime.date object. That's why you get <class 'datetime.date'> - that's exactly representation of instance of class datetime.date.
if you want to get meaningful string representation use strftime() method of datetime.date object

from datetime import date
today = date.today()
print(today.strftime('%d-%m-%Y'))
print(today.strftime('%d-%b-%Y'))

Output:
31-01-2019
31-Jan-2019