Use year int rather than datetime object

mlbgame/__init__.py

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ def game_events(game_id):
     return [mlbgame.events.Inning(data[x], x) for x in data]
 
 
-def important_dates(date=datetime.now()):
+def important_dates(year=datetime.now().year):
     """Return ImportantDates object that contains MLB important dates"""
     data = mlbgame.info.important_dates(date)
     return mlbgame.info.ImportantDates(data)

mlbgame/data.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 """
 
 import os
-from datetime import datetime
 try:
     from urllib.request import urlopen
     from urllib.error import HTTPError
@@ -32,9 +31,9 @@
 PWD = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
 
-def get_important_dates(date):
+def get_important_dates(year):
     try:
-        return urlopen(IMPORTANT_DATES.format(date.year))
+        return urlopen(IMPORTANT_DATES.format(year))
     except HTTPError:
         raise ValueError('Could not retrive the MLB important dates information.')
 

mlbgame/info.py

@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ def team_info():
     return output
 
 
-def important_dates(date):
+def important_dates(year):
     """Returns a dictionary of important dates"""
     output = {}
-    data = mlbgame.data.get_important_dates(date)
+    data = mlbgame.data.get_important_dates(year)
     important_dates = etree.parse(data).getroot().find('queryResults').find('row')
     try:
         for x in important_dates.attrib: