Solution:
import datetime
my_date = datetime.date(2021, 3, 2)
or
from datetime import date
my_date = date(2021, 3, 2)
Why?
The issue is that datetime.datetime.date() is a method on a datetime.datetime object. We were confusing the datetime module with the datetime.datetime class.
What we’re really looking for is the datetime.date() constructor.