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

Can't* believe this question has existed for 9 years without anyone suggesting a simple recursive function:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def walk_days(start_date, end_date):
    if start_date <= end_date:
        print(start_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))
        next_date = start_date + timedelta(days=1)
        walk_days(next_date, end_date)

#demo
start_date = datetime(2009, 5, 30)
end_date   = datetime(2009, 6, 9)

walk_days(start_date, end_date)

Output:

2009-05-30
2009-05-31
2009-06-01
2009-06-02
2009-06-03
2009-06-04
2009-06-05
2009-06-06
2009-06-07
2009-06-08
2009-06-09

Edit: *Now I can believe it -- see Does Python optimize tail recursion? . Thank you Tim.