Iterating through a range of dates in Python

Question

I have the following code to do this, but how can I do it better? Right now I think it\'s better than nested loops, but it starts to get Perl-one-linerish when you have a ge

Answer 1

I have a similar problem, but I need to iterate monthly instead of daily.

This is my solution

import calendar
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def days_in_month(dt):
    return calendar.monthrange(dt.year, dt.month)[1]

def monthly_range(dt_start, dt_end):
    forward = dt_end >= dt_start
    finish = False
    dt = dt_start

    while not finish:
        yield dt.date()
        if forward:
            days = days_in_month(dt)
            dt = dt + timedelta(days=days)            
            finish = dt > dt_end
        else:
            _tmp_dt = dt.replace(day=1) - timedelta(days=1)
            dt = (_tmp_dt.replace(day=dt.day))
            finish = dt < dt_end

Example #1

date_start = datetime(2016, 6, 1)
date_end = datetime(2017, 1, 1)

for p in monthly_range(date_start, date_end):
    print(p)

Output

2016-06-01
2016-07-01
2016-08-01
2016-09-01
2016-10-01
2016-11-01
2016-12-01
2017-01-01

Example #2

date_start = datetime(2017, 1, 1)
date_end = datetime(2016, 6, 1)

for p in monthly_range(date_start, date_end):
    print(p)

Output

2017-01-01
2016-12-01
2016-11-01
2016-10-01
2016-09-01
2016-08-01
2016-07-01
2016-06-01