Handle Dates in Python using datetime package

In this blog we will look at how to extract date,month and year infromation from date string¶

In [2]:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import date
from datetime import timedelta

Step 1: Create date string¶

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todays_date=date.today()
todays_date

Out[3]:

datetime.date(2022, 3, 25)

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type(todays_date)

Out[9]:

datetime.date

Step 2: Get month¶

In [4]:

todays_date.month

Out[4]:

3

Step 3: Get month name¶

In [13]:

pd.to_datetime(todays_date).month_name()

Out[13]:

'March'

Step 4: Get year¶

In [14]:

todays_date.year

Out[14]:

2022

Step 5: Get date¶

In [16]:

todays_date.day

Out[16]:

25

Step 6: Add days to a date¶

In [18]:

date.today()

Out[18]:

datetime.date(2022, 3, 25)

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# Add 10 days to todays date
days_added_to_today = date.today() + timedelta(days=10) 
days_added_to_today

Out[21]:

datetime.date(2022, 4, 4)

Step 7: Subtract days from a date¶

In [22]:

date.today()

Out[22]:

datetime.date(2022, 3, 25)

In [23]:

# Subtract 5 days to todays date
date.today() - timedelta(days=5)

Out[23]:

datetime.date(2022, 3, 20)

Step 8: Subtract two dates and convert difference into days value¶

In [25]:

date1= date.today()
date1

Out[25]:

datetime.date(2022, 3, 25)

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date2= date.today() + timedelta(days=10)
date2

Out[26]:

datetime.date(2022, 4, 4)

In [29]:

date_diff=date2 - date1
date_diff

Out[29]:

datetime.timedelta(days=10)

In [34]:

date_diff.days

Out[34]:

10