python date of the previous month

Question

I am trying to get the date of the previous month with python. Here is what i\'ve tried:

str( time.strftime(\'%Y\') ) + str( int(time.strftime(\'%m\'))-1 )
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Answer 1

from datetime import date, timedelta

first_day_of_current_month = date.today().replace(day=1)
last_day_of_previous_month = first_day_of_current_month - timedelta(days=1)

print "Previous month:", last_day_of_previous_month.month

Or:

from datetime import date, timedelta

prev = date.today().replace(day=1) - timedelta(days=1)
print prev.month