Hi, I’m getting

Context object has no attribute 'today'

error when I try to get

prefect.context.today

in the Flow block. According to the documentation,

today

is one of those variables always available during task runs. What am I missing?

Are you referencing this attribute outside of a task? If so, remember that the Flow block builds your Flow but does not run it. This attribute is only populated in the context of a run

This is what I actually wanted to do.

with Flow("prem_trend") as flow:

    task = RenameFlowRunTask()

    task(flow_run_id=prefect.context.flow_run_id), flow_run_name=f'run_{helpers.pstime()}')

Yes, these variables are not populated until runtime but you are using them at build time in your example. To use a non-prefect specific example from your code:

flow_run_name=f'run_{helpers.pstime()}'

This code is called once and the string is hardened when you first build this flow, it will not change each time you run the flow. If you want something dynamic, you should place this logic within your tasks or create new tasks that run this at runtime. To be very precise in your example, I would do:

class MyRenameTask(RenameFlowRunTask):
    def run(self):
        return super.run(flow_run_id=prefect.context.flow_run_id), flow_run_name=f'run_{helpers.pstime()}')

Wow.. thanks. Let me try.

sorry, that should have been:

return super().run(flow_run_id=prefect.context.flow_run_id), flow_run_name=f'run_{helpers.pstime()}')

cool… it’s working 🙂