The provided code attempts to perform the following tasks but...

The provided code attempts to perform the following tasks but will actually throw an error. Let me break this down:

1. YEAR_END_THEN = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'):

   • This line uses Python's datetime module to get the current date (datetime.today()), and formats it as a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD (e.g., "2023-10-29" if today is October 29, 2023). This assigns a string value to the variable YEAR_END_THEN.

2. YEAR_START_NOW = YEAR_END_THEN - timedelta(days=8*365):

   • This line attempts to calculate a date 8 years before YEAR_END_THEN. However, YEAR_END_THEN is a string, not a datetime object. Thus, subtracting timedelta (a time duration object) from a string will result in a TypeError.
   • To make this work, YEAR_END_THEN would need to be converted back to a datetime object using datetime.strptime.

Corrected Version (to achieve the desired functionality):

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

YEAR_END_THEN = datetime.today()  # Current datetime
YEAR_START_NOW = YEAR_END_THEN - timedelta(days=8*365)  # Subtract 8 years' worth of days

In this corrected version:

• YEAR_END_THEN is a datetime object representing the current moment.
• YEAR_START_NOW is a datetime object representing a date approximately 8 years earlier.