How to get the last day of the month?

Question

Is there a way using Python\'s standard library to easily determine (i.e. one function call) the last day of a given month?

If the standard library doesn\'t support

Answer 1

Using dateutil.relativedelta you would get last date of month like this:

from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
last_date_of_month = datetime(mydate.year, mydate.month, 1) + relativedelta(months=1, days=-1)

The idea is to get the first day of the month and use relativedelta to go 1 month ahead and 1 day back so you would get the last day of the month you wanted.