Troubleshooting "descriptor 'date' requires a 'datetime.datetime' object but received a 'int'"

In my code I ask the user for a date in the format dd/mm/yyyy.

currentdate = raw_input("Please enter todays date in the format dd/mm/yyyy: ")
day,month,year = currentdate.split('/')
today = datetime.date(int(year),int(month),int(day))

This returns the error

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

if I remove the int() then I end up with the same error only it says it received a 'str'

What am I doing wrong?