How to calculate number of days between two given dates?

Question

If I have two dates (ex. \'8/18/2008\' and \'9/26/2008\'), what is the best way to get the number of days between these two dates?

Answer 1

For calculating dates and times, there are several options but I will write the simple way:

from datetime import timedelta, datetime, date
import dateutil.relativedelta

# current time
date_and_time = datetime.datetime.now()
date_only = date.today()
time_only = datetime.datetime.now().time()

# calculate date and time
result = date_and_time - datetime.timedelta(hours=26, minutes=25, seconds=10)

# calculate dates: years (-/+)
result = date_only - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(years=10)

# months
result = date_only - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(months=10)

# days
result = date_only - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(days=10)

# calculate time 
result = date_and_time - datetime.timedelta(hours=26, minutes=25, seconds=10)
result.time()

Hope it helps