On Aug 16, 4:30 pm, "special_dragonfly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through > the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps > out at me. > > The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a > tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus > 1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the > date being linked in with the month. > > So is there any way of getting yesterdays date? > As well as the other replies, this also works (as far as I can tell!):
import time today = time.localtime() yesterday = today[ : 2] + (today[2] - 1, ) + today[3 : ] yesterday = time.localtime(time.mktime(yesterday)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
