new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  """This is a module gets today's date."""
  
  import datetime
  
  CURDATE = None
  
  
  def get_current_date():
      """Return today's date
  
      Args:
          (int): Current day
          
      Returns:
          date: the year, month, day
          
      Examples:
          >>> import task_01
          >>> print task_01.CURDATE
          None
          >>> print task_01.get_current_date()
          datetime.date(2015, 9, 24)
          
      """
      return datetime.date.today()
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      CURDATE = get_current_date()
      print CURDATE
  
subject: Use datetime.date.today() and then if__name__ = '__main__': to make CURDATE available.