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

Here is a solution based python lambdas:

next_month = lambda y, m, d: (y, m + 1, 1) if m + 1 < 13 else ( y+1 , 1, 1)
month_end  = lambda dte: date( *next_month( *dte.timetuple()[:3] ) ) - timedelta(days=1)

The next_month lambda finds the tuple representation of the first day of the next month, and rolls over to the next year. The month_end lambda transforms a date (dte) to a tuple, applies next_month and creates a new date. Then the "month's end" is just the next month's first day minus timedelta(days=1).