special_dragonfly schrieb: > Hello, > > I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through > the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps > out at me. > > The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a > tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus > 1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the > date being linked in with the month. > > So is there any way of getting yesterdays date?
RTFM is the answer... import datetime today = datetime.date.today() yesterday = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1) print yesterday Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list