Gooch, John wrote: > What would be the simplest way to extract the Month and Year for one month > prior to the current month? I have been looking for a way to create a Date > object with the current date, and then subtract a month from it. Say it is > currently "January 1st, 2005", I would like to be able to subtract a month > and get "December 1, 2004".
What if it is March 30 or June 31 today? > > For the code I am working with I am only interested in the Month and the > Year. Is there a way to use datetime or date modules to do this? Or perhaps > I need to use a different module? To just get the month and year you can use datetime and timedelta; just keep subtracting days until the month changes: >>> import datetime >>> t = datetime.datetime.today() >>> t datetime.datetime(2005, 5, 3, 13, 21, 52, 370000) >>> oneday = datetime.timedelta(days=1) >>> month = t.month >>> while t.month == month: ... t -= oneday ... >>> t datetime.datetime(2005, 4, 30, 13, 21, 52, 370000) >>> t.month 4 >>> t.year 2005 Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
