Formatting “yesterday's” date in python

Question

I need to find \"yesterday\'s\" date in this format MMDDYY in Python.

So for instance, today\'s date would be represented like this: 111009

I ca

Answer 1

To expand on the answer given by Chris

if you want to store the date in a variable in a specific format, this is the shortest and most effective way as far as I know

>>> from datetime import date, timedelta                   
>>> yesterday = (date.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%m%d%y')
>>> yesterday
'020817'

If you want it as an integer (which can be useful)

>>> yesterday = int((date.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%m%d%y'))
>>> yesterday
20817