[Python] Why does this Python variable assignment fail?

This works:

from datetime import date
currentYear = date.today().strftime("%Y")
date = date.today().strftime("%e/%-m/%y")
print(date)
print(currentYear)


But it doesn't work if I reverse the order of the variable assignments:

from datetime import date
date = date.today().strftime("%e/%-m/%y")
currentYear = date.today().strftime("%Y")
print(date)
print(currentYear)


It returns:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/emma/x", line 5, in <module>
currentYear = date.today().strftime("%Y")
^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'today'

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