Python: get all months in range?

Question

I want to get all months between now and August 2010, as a list formatted like this:

[\'2010-08-01\', \'2010-09-01\', .... , \'2016-02-01\']

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Answer 1

dateutil.relativedelta is handy here.

I've left the formatting out as an exercise.

from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
import datetime

result = []

today = datetime.date.today()
current = datetime.date(2010, 8, 1)    

while current <= today:
    result.append(current)
    current += relativedelta(months=1)