Working with dates in Python can be done using the built-in In Python, the In Python, you can find the weekday of a date using the The In Python, you can perform arithmetic with Incrementing variables +=
In Python, you can increment a variable by a certain amount using the In Python, you can convert ISO 8601 is an international standard for representing date and time information. It specifies a format for date and time strings that is widely used in computer systems and on the internet. The basic format of an ISO 8601 date string is The When adding time to the mix, the In Python, you can replace parts of a datetime using the datetime module. This module provides several classes for working
Attributes of a date
date object from the datetime module represents a date and has the following attributes:
year: the year of the date (as an integer)
Finding the weekday of a date
weekday() or isoweekday() method of the date object from the datetime module.weekday(
Math with Dates
date objects from the datetime module. You can add or subtract a timedelta object to a date object to get a new date object.+= operator. This is a shorthand way of writing x = x + y, where x is the variable you want to increment and y is the amount you w
Turning dates into strings
date objects to strings using the strftime() method. The strftime() method takes a formatting string as an argument and returns a string representation of the date in the format specifie
ISO 8601 format with Exmples
YYYY-MM-DD, where YYYY
Format strftime
strftime() method in Python's datetime module is used to format date and time objects as strings. It takes a format string as an argument and returns a string representation of the date and/or time object based on the specified format. Here are some examples of other common d
Adding time to the mix
strftime() method can be used with a combination of format codes to produce date/time strings in various formats. Here are some examples:
%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S: Year, month, day, 24-hour time with leading zeros, minutes, and
Replacing parts of a datetime
replace() method. This method returns a new datetime object with the specified parts replaced. Here's an example: