[newbie] Manipulating Dates

[Tom B.]

"Elliot Clifton" <ec at clif2.com> wrote in message
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> X-No-archive: yes
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> Hi,
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> How do I do the following with the Date object:
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> newDate = oldDate + 3 months
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> What would that be in Python code?
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> Thanks,
>
> Elliot

In python 23 the datetime module if for date calculations

import datetime

some_date = datetime.date(2003,9,18)
add_date = datetime.timedelta(weeks=12)
new_date = some_date + add_date


>>> new_date
datetime.date(2003, 12, 11)

Tom