[Tutor] iterate over daterange

[Kent Johnson]

captnswing wrote:
> Hello
> I have a startdate and an enddate and I want to iterate over all days  
> in between the two
> 
> .... there doesn't seem to be a range function for dates?!?
> 
> i.e. currently I am going through integers with something like this:
> 
> =================================
> startdate = datetime.date(2006,1,1)
> enddate = datetime.date(2006,10,19)
> 
> for i in range((enddate-startdate).days + 1):
> 	currentdate = startdate + datetime.timedelta(days=i)
> 	....
> =================================
> 
> this seems so 'unpythonic', there surely must be a better way, no?

currentdate = datetime.date(2006,1,1)
enddate = datetime.date(2006,1,19)
while currentdate <= enddate:
   print currentdate
   currentdate += datetime.timedelta(days=1)

seems a little better to me.

Gustavo Niemeyer's dateutil package includes very flexible recurrence 
rules - see
http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-470fa22b2db72000d7abe698a5783a46b0731b57

Kent