How to print a date in a regular format?

This is my code:

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
print(today)

This prints: 2008-11-22 which is exactly what I want.

But, I have a list I'm appending this to and then suddenly everything goes "wonky". Here is the code:

import datetime
mylist = [datetime.date.today()]
print(mylist)

This prints [datetime.date(2008, 11, 22)]. How can I get just a simple date like 2008-11-22?