Given a date range how can we break it up into N contiguous sub-intervals?

Question

I am accessing some data through an API where I need to provide the date range for my request, ex. start=\'20100101\', end=\'20150415\'. I thought I would speed this up by

Answer 1

Could you use the datetime.date objects instead?

If you do:

import datetime
begin = datetime.date(2001, 1, 1)
end = datetime.date(2010, 12, 31)

intervals = 4

date_list = []

delta = (end - begin)/4
for i in range(1, intervals + 1):
    date_list.append((begin+i*delta).strftime('%Y%m%d'))

and date_list should have the end dates for each inteval.