Comments on: How to Add Months to a Date in Python

By: Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher)

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:54:33 +0000

Thanks Waldemar, that does work. It also looks like an excellent package. Well, at the very least I’ve learned an appriciation for adding months today

By: Waldemar

Waldemar — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:41:18 +0000

Hard work for date manipulation has been done already in:
http://labix.org/python-dateutil

From the examples on the page:
import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

NOW = datetime.datetime.now()
NOW + relativedelta(months=+1)

By: Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher)

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:40:38 +0000

Good thought, Phil but I get:

>>> today = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> nextMonth = today + datetime.timedelta(months=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ““, line 1, in ?
TypeError: ‘months’ is an invalid keyword argument for this function

By: phil

phil — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:05:44 +0000

And what about using datetime.timedelta ?

today = datetime.datetime.now() nextMonth = today + datetime.timedelta(months=1)