finding first day of the month in python

Question

I\'m trying to find the first day of the month in python with one condition: if my current date passed the 25th of the month, then the first date variable will hold the first da

Answer 1

This is a pithy solution.

import datetime 

todayDate = datetime.date.today()
if todayDate.day > 25:
    todayDate += datetime.timedelta(7)
print todayDate.replace(day=1)

One thing to note with the original code example is that using timedelta(30) will cause trouble if you are testing the last day of January. That is why I am using a 7-day delta.