How to get first/last day of the previous month?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2009-01-20 15:54, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> On Jan 20, 8:19 am, Hussein B <hubaghd... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>> I'm creating a report that is supposed to harvest the data for the
>> previous month.
>> So I need a way to get the first day and the last day of the previous
>> month.
>> Would you please tell me how to do this?
>> Thanks in advance.
> 
> I recommend the dateutil module:
> 
> http://labix.org/python-dateutil
> 
> I think it may also be possible to use the datetime module, but it's
> easier to just use dateutil.

Or use mxDateTime on which all this was based:

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/

>>> from mx.DateTime import now, Date, RelativeDateTime
>>>
>>> def prev_month():
...     t = now()
...     return (
...         t + RelativeDateTime(months=-1, day=1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0),
...         t + RelativeDateTime(months=-1, day=-1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0))
...
>>> print prev_month()
(<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2008-12-01 00:00:00.00' at 2b13fe0e7978>,
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2008-12-31 00:00:00.00' at 2b13fe0e79d0>)


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