I am trying to get the date of the previous month with python.
Here is what i’ve tried:
str( time.strftime('%Y') ) + str( int(time.strftime('%m'))-1 )
However, this way is bad for 2 reasons: First it returns 20122 for the February of 2012 (instead of 201202) and secondly it will return 0 instead of 12 on January.
I have solved this trouble in bash with
echo $(date -d"3 month ago" "+%G%m%d")
I think that if bash has a built-in way for this purpose, then python, much more equipped, should provide something better than forcing writing one’s own script to achieve this goal. Of course i could do something like:
if int(time.strftime('%m')) == 1:
return '12'
else:
if int(time.strftime('%m')) < 10:
return '0'+str(time.strftime('%m')-1)
else:
return str(time.strftime('%m') -1)
I have not tested this code and i don’t want to use it anyway (unless I can’t find any other way:/)
Thanks for your help!