On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:01:14 -0700, "Robert Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John W wrote: >> I have been trying to figure out how to >> easily add just one month to a datetime >> object? ...I was wondering if there is >> simple way of doing this with built in >> datetime object? > >If you want the same day in the succeeding month, you can try: > > newdate =3D datetime.date(olddate.year, olddate.month + 1, >olddate.day) > >...but as you can see, that will run into problems quickly. See the >"sane_date" function here: >http://projects.amor.org/misc/browser/recur.py for a more robust >solution, where: > > newdate =3D recur.sane_date(olddate.year, olddate.month + 1, >olddate.day) > >will roll over any values which are out-of-bounds for their container. > > The OP will still have to decide whether he likes the semantics ;-) E.g., what does he really want as the date for "one month" after January 30 ? Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
