Creating a range of dates in Python

Question

I want to create a list of dates, starting with today, and going back an arbitrary number of days, say, in my example 100 days. Is there a better way to do it than this?

Answer 1

From the title of this question I was expecting to find something like range(), that would let me specify two dates and create a list with all the dates in between. That way one does not need to calculate the number of days between those two dates, if one does not know it beforehand.

So with the risk of being slightly off-topic, this one-liner does the job:

import datetime
start_date = datetime.date(2011, 01, 01)
end_date   = datetime.date(2014, 01, 01)

dates_2011_2013 = [ start_date + datetime.timedelta(n) for n in range(int ((end_date - start_date).days))]

All credits to this answer!