Add days to date
Python, Date · Oct 28, 2020
Calculates the date of n days from the given date.
- Use
datetime.timedeltaand the+operator to calculate the newdatetime.datetimevalue after addingndays tod. - Omit the second argument,
d, to use a default value ofdatetime.today().
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
def add_days(n, d = datetime.today()):
return d + timedelta(n)from datetime import date
add_days(5, date(2020, 10, 25)) # date(2020, 10, 30)
add_days(-5, date(2020, 10, 25)) # date(2020, 10, 20)
