What's the simplest way to subtract a month from a date in Python?

Question

If only timedelta had a month argument in it\'s constructor. So what\'s the simplest way to do this?

EDIT: I wasn\'t thinking too hard about this as was poin

Answer 1

I think the simple way is to use DateOffset from Pandas like so:

import pandas as pd
date_1 = pd.to_datetime("2013-03-31", format="%Y-%m-%d") - pd.DateOffset(months=1)

The result will be a datetime object