How do I check if a given datetime object is “between” two datetimes?

Question

my_event = Event.objects.get(id=4)
current_time = datetime.datetime.now()

How do I do check if my current time is between them?

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Answer 1

I know old, but since this is so high on Google results, answers here don't take into consideration two cases:

1. If your time equals either of your range, ie your range is 6-8 and it is 6.
2. If your time range is say 18:00 to 6:00, valid range; however 19:00 would not match.

I wrote a function to take care of time comparison, hope this helps anyone viewing this old question.

def process_time(intime, start, end):
    if start <= intime <= end:
        return True
    elif start > end:
        end_day = time(hour=23, minute=59, second=59, microsecond=999999)
        if start <= intime <= end_day:
            return True
        elif intime <= end:
            return True
    return False