Date strftime('%d%m%y') date to be of yesterday
Tim Golden
mail at timgolden.me.uk
Thu Oct 22 06:14:46 EDT 2009
baboucarr sanneh wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I want to output the date of the with this format strftime('%d%m%y') but the date ie '%d' should be the date of yesterday
> eg
>
> import time
> strftime('%d%m%y') # something like minus a day..
> Thank you..am a newbie to python
<code>
import datetime
yesterday = datetime.date.today () - datetime.timedelta (days=1)
print yesterday.strftime ("%d%m%y")
</code>
TJG
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