datetime: the date of the day one month ago...how?

[Max M]

gabor wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to get the date of the day one month ago.
> 
> for example:
> 
> today =     12.apr.2006
> one-month-ago = 12.mar.2006
> 
> so:
> 
> one-month-ago(12.apr.2006) = 12.mar.2006
> 
> of course sometimes it gets more complicated, like:
> 
> one-month-ago(31.mar.2006)
> 
> or
> 
> one-month-ago(1.jan.2006)
> 
> the datetime.timedelta objects only work with hours or days or weeks, 
> not month (i understand why)...
> 
> but is there a way to calculate this in python?
> 
> i really don't want to calculate it by myself :-))


It is application specific. So how *do* you want 
one-month-ago(31.mar.2006) or one-month-ago(28.feb.2006) to work? No one 
can know but you.


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