Victor Engle <victor.en...@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

The types defined in ‘datetime’ can perform calendar arithmetic::

    import datetime

    today = datetime.date.today()
    one_day = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    yesterday = today - one_day
    tomorrow = today + one_day

<URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta>

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