finding last business day of a month in python

Question

I\'m trying to find last business day of of the month. I wrote the code below for that and it works fine but I was wondering if there is a cleaner way of doing it?

Answer 1

I use this for the first business day of the month but it can be used for last business day of the month as well:

import time
import datetime
from pandas.tseries.holiday import USFederalHolidayCalendar
from pandas.tseries.offsets import CustomBusinessDay
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

#Create dates needed to be entered as parameters
today = datetime.date.today()
first = today.replace(day=1)
#End of the Prior Month
eopm = first - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
eopm = eopm.strftime("%Y%m%d")
#Create first business day of current month date
us_bd = CustomBusinessDay(calendar=USFederalHolidayCalendar())
focm = first
nxtMo = today + relativedelta(months=+1)
fonm = nxtMo.replace(day=1)
eocm = fonm - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
first_bd = pd.DatetimeIndex(start = focm, end = eocm, freq= us_bd)
first_bd = first_bd.strftime("%Y%m%d")
#First Business Day of the Month
first_bd = first_bd[0]
#Last Business Day of the Month
lst_day = len(first_bd)-1
last_bd = first_bd[lst_day]

I left some code in there that is not needed for the last business day of the current month, but may be useful to someone.