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

import datetime
date_str = '08/01/2018'
format_str = '%d/%m/%Y'
datetime_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, format_str)   
datetime_obj.replace(month=datetime_obj.month-1)

Simple solution, no need for special libraries.