Victor Engle wrote: > I want to keep a collection of data organized by collection date and I'll > use datetime like this... > >>>> datetime.date.today() > > datetime.date(2014, 3, 26) > > > I'll format the date and create directories like /mydata/yyyy-mm-dd > > > When I create a directory for today, I need to know the directory name for > yesterday and tomorrow. In perl I could get seconds since the epoch using > time and then add or subtract from that number for tomorrow or yesterday > and feed that into localtime to get the date string. > > > It would be convenient if datetime.date.today() accepted an argument as > an offset from today, like datetime.date.today(-1). Is there an easy way > to do this with datetime?
>>> import datetime >>> ONE_DAY = datetime.timedelta(days=1) >>> today = datetime.date.today() >>> today datetime.date(2014, 3, 26) >>> today - ONE_DAY datetime.date(2014, 3, 25) >>> today + ONE_DAY datetime.date(2014, 3, 27) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
