How to print current date on python3?

From what I gather, here (for example), this should print the current year in two digits

print (datetime.strftime("%y"))

However, I get this error

TypeError: descriptor 'strftime' requires a 'datetime.date' object but received a 'str'

So I tried to this

print (datetime.strftime(datetime.date()))

to get

TypeError: descriptor 'date' of 'datetime.datetime' object needs an argument

so I placed "%y" inside of thr date() above to get

TypeError: descriptor 'date' requires a 'datetime.datetime' object but received a 'str'

Which start to seem really loopy and fishy to me.

What am I missing?