How Do I Retreive Future Dates

[Yudesh]

Hi guys

I am hoping that someone can help me with the following.

I am a new developer to python and I have the following problem:
I have been able to retrieve a certain date from an oracle database that I am connected to.
This date is the basis for the following information that I need:
- I need to get the date of the 3rd of the month after the date I retrieve.
- I also need to get the 1st and last days of the month after the date that I retrieve.

e.g - i got the following date 250208
i need to get the 1st of march - 3rd march - 31st march

This is an example, so I will be using variables to plug in any value I want.

I have tried to see which date function could help, but with no success.

Any assistance will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Yudesh

[dazzler]

have you tried using datetime module?

here's some examples

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html

[bvdet]

Hi guys

I am hoping that someone can help me with the following.

I am a new developer to python and I have the following problem:
I have been able to retrieve a certain date from an oracle database that I am connected to.
This date is the basis for the following information that I need:
- I need to get the date of the 3rd of the month after the date I retrieve.
- I also need to get the 1st and last days of the month after the date that I retrieve.

e.g - i got the following date 250208
i need to get the 1st of march - 3rd march - 31st march

This is an example, so I will be using variables to plug in any value I want.

I have tried to see which date function could help, but with no success.

Any assistance will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Yudesh

The first thing you need to do is parse the string into a format that can be passed to datetime.date(). This returns a date object. To get the third of the next month, you can use the date method replace(). To get the last day of the next month, you can again use the date method replace() and subtract datetime.timede lta(days=3).[code=Python]def future_dates(da teStr):
# dateStr is in the format '250208'
d = datetime.date(i nt('20'+dateStr[4:]), int(dateStr[2:4]), int(dateStr[:2]))
d1 = d.replace(month =d.month+1, day=3)
d2 = d1.replace(mont h=d1.month+1)-datetime.timede lta(days=3)
return d, d1, d2

print future_dates('2 50208')[/code]
Output:

>>> (datetime.date( 2008, 2, 25), datetime.date(2 008, 3, 3), datetime.date(2 008, 3, 31))

[Yudesh]

Hi

Thanks a lot for the assistance - I have incorporated this into my script - I will now try to format the date in a way that is needed for my project.

Thanks Again:

The first thing you need to do is parse the string into a format that can be passed to datetime.date(). This returns a date object. To get the third of the next month, you can use the date method replace(). To get the last day of the next month, you can again use the date method replace() and subtract datetime.timede lta(days=3).[code=Python]def future_dates(da teStr):
# dateStr is in the format '250208'
d = datetime.date(i nt('20'+dateStr[4:]), int(dateStr[2:4]), int(dateStr[:2]))
d1 = d.replace(month =d.month+1, day=3)
d2 = d1.replace(mont h=d1.month+1)-datetime.timede lta(days=3)
return d, d1, d2

print future_dates('2 50208')[/code]
Output:

>>> (datetime.date( 2008, 2, 25), datetime.date(2 008, 3, 3), datetime.date(2 008, 3, 31))