Roy Smith wrote: > In article <49bd3ab8$0$510$bed64...@news.gradwell.net>, tinn...@isbd.co.uk > wrote: > >> I have a date in the form of a datetime object and I want to add (for >> example) three months to it. At the moment I can't see any very >> obvious way of doing this. I need something like:- >> >> myDate = datetime.date.today() >> inc = datetime.timedelta(months=3) >> myDate += inc >> >> but, of course, timedelta doesn't know about months. I had a look at >> the calendar object but that didn't seem to help much. > > Well, before you can "add three months" to something, you need to explain > what that means. > > What is Nov 29th plus 3 months? > > What is Jan 31st plus 3 months? > > Months are different lengths. Asking to "add 3 months" is kind of like > asking, "If I'm somewhere in the continental US (east of the Mississippi > River) and move three states to the west, how many miles have I moved?" > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > OK, suppose I sign a contract on Nov 30 that requires me to make quarterly payments. When is my next payment due?
The use case doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Want to know? Come to PyCon - soon! http://us.pycon.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list