Comments on: Yesterday’s date in Python http://www.thejackol.com/2005/07/01/yesterdays-date-in-python/ 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101000 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:10:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wyatt Baldwin http://www.thejackol.com/2005/07/01/yesterdays-date-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-187988 Wyatt Baldwin Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:48:17 +0000 http://www.thejackol.com/?p=154#comment-187988 How about this: # assuming you don't need hours, minutes, and seconds: import datetime today = datetime.date.today() yesterday = today - datetime.timedelta(1) # or, if you do need hours, minutes, and seconds: now = datetime.datetime.now() yesterday_at_this_time = now - datetime.timedelta(1) How about this:

  1. assuming you don’t need hours, minutes, and seconds:

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
yesterday = today – datetime.timedelta(1)

  1. or, if you do need hours, minutes, and seconds:

now = datetime.datetime.now()
yesterday_at_this_time = now – datetime.timedelta(1)

]]> By: Traut http://www.thejackol.com/2005/07/01/yesterdays-date-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-92758 Traut Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:21:39 +0000 http://www.thejackol.com/?p=154#comment-92758 thank you :) thank you :)

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