I have the need to find the number of months between two dates in python. Is there any standard python method to do that ?
9 Answers
You can try this:
from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import relativedelta
date1 = datetime.strptime(str('2011-08-15 12:00:00'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
date2 = datetime.strptime(str('2012-02-15'), '%Y-%m-%d')
r = relativedelta.relativedelta(date2, date1)
r.months
This will give you number of months between two dates.
Thanks, Priyesh Solanki
for example:
from datetime import datetime
def days_between(d1, d2):
d1 = datetime.strptime(d1, "%Y-%m-%d")
d2 = datetime.strptime(d2, "%Y-%m-%d")
return abs((d2 - d1).days)
print days_between('2013-05-06', '2013-06-06')
I would like to refresh a bit this subject. Guys, how ... i tried Priyesh's answer but because I'm trying to provide date's from inputs ... it gives me an error: date1 = datetime.strptime(str('st_date'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 325, in _strptime (data_string, format)) ValueError: time data 'st_date' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' What to do with it ?
Can yo be more specific? How many months should be between april 30 and may 1st of the same year? And what about 1-st and last day of a specific month. And what about 15 of month x and 14 of month x+1?