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Date calculation

I'm a Newbie.

Is there a method in Python to display yesterday's date?

ie: Yesterday = Today - 1day

Jul 18 '05 #1
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David Mostert wrote:
I'm a Newbie.

Is there a method in Python to display yesterday's date?

ie: Yesterday = Today - 1day


http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/lib/...-datetime.html

datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

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Yermat

Jul 18 '05 #2
In article <ma*************************************@python.or g>,
"David Mostert" <je******@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm a Newbie.

Is there a method in Python to display yesterday's date?

ie: Yesterday = Today - 1day


import time
yesternow = time.time() - 24 * 60 * 60.0
print time.ctime (yesternow)
Does a little more than you want.

Regards. Mel.
Jul 18 '05 #3

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