[Python-ideas] Pythonic Dates, Times, and Deltas

[Marco Mariani]

On 13 October 2010 23:17, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:


* Make it easy to get a tuple of the start and end of the month
>
> Why would you want this?  Start of the month is easy: just date(year,
> month, 1).  End of the month is often unnecessary because it is more
> pythonic to work with semi-open ranges and use first of the next month
> instead.
>

Except next month may well be in next year.. blah

And I don't care about pythonic ranges if I have to push the values through
a BETWEEN query in SQL.

import calendar
import datetime

end = datetime.date(year, month, calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1])
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