On 2009-01-20 15:54, Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Jan 20, 8:19 am, Hussein B <hubaghd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey, >> I'm creating a report that is supposed to harvest the data for the >> previous month. >> So I need a way to get the first day and the last day of the previous >> month. >> Would you please tell me how to do this? >> Thanks in advance. > > I recommend the dateutil module: > > http://labix.org/python-dateutil > > I think it may also be possible to use the datetime module, but it's > easier to just use dateutil.
Or use mxDateTime on which all this was based: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/ >>> from mx.DateTime import now, Date, RelativeDateTime >>> >>> def prev_month(): ... t = now() ... return ( ... t + RelativeDateTime(months=-1, day=1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0), ... t + RelativeDateTime(months=-1, day=-1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0)) ... >>> print prev_month() (<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2008-12-01 00:00:00.00' at 2b13fe0e7978>, <mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2008-12-31 00:00:00.00' at 2b13fe0e79d0>) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 21 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
