The following python code returns the first/last day of prev month but I want to be able to return the first day from 3 months ago instead
from datetime import date, timedelta last_day_of_prev_month = date.today().replace(day=1) - timedelta(days=1) start_day_of_prev_month = date.today().replace(day=1) - timedelta(days=last_day_of_prev_month.day) print("First day of prev month:", start_day_of_prev_month) print("Last day of prev month:", last_day_of_prev_month)
CURRENT OUTPUT
#First day of prev month: 2021-04-01 #Last day of prev month: 2021-04-30
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Answer
You could convert months to weeks:
from datetime import date, timedelta def get_date_range(month_ago): weeks = month_ago * 4 today = date.today() last_day_of_prev_month = today.replace(day=1) - timedelta(days=1) past_day = last_day_of_prev_month.replace(day=1) - timedelta(weeks=weeks) print("First day of prev month:", last_day_of_prev_month) print("Last day of prev month:", past_day.replace(day=1)) get_date_range(3) get_date_range(6)
Out:
First day of prev month: 2021-04-30 Last day of prev month: 2021-01-01 First day of prev month: 2021-04-30 Last day of prev month: 2020-10-01