Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:28 AM, <tinn...@isbd.co.uk> wrote: > > I have a date in the form of a datetime object and I want to add (for > > example) three months to it. At the moment I can't see any very > > obvious way of doing this. I need something like:- > > > > myDate = datetime.date.today() > > inc = datetime.timedelta(months=3) > > myDate += inc > > > > but, of course, timedelta doesn't know about months. > > Which makes some sense considering a month can range from 28-31 days, > which would make the delta oddly fuzzy. > > Here's one approach: > myDate = datetime.date.today() > newYear = myDate.year > newMonth = myDate.month + 3 > if newMonth > 12: > newYear += 1 > newMonth -= 12 > inThreeMonths = datetime.date(newYear, newMonth, myDate.day) > #add extra analogous logic if you have to deal with February or 31st days. > I was just hoping there was some calendar object in Python which could do all that for me (I need the handling of 31st and February etc.)
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