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Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 6319

Subtract two dates to give a timedelta

I'm trying to get a value from one of my database values, which will be given by subtracting the purchase date from today's date. I've written my code this way:

delta = datetime.now() - item.purchase_date

But this gives me this error:

unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'datetime.datetime' and 'datetime.date'

If I use datetime.datetime.now() this doesn't work. What am I missing. Thanks.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 24637

Answers (1)

SilentGhost
SilentGhost

Reputation: 319511

you need to use date.today or datetime.now().date() instead of datetime.now:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date.today()
datetime.date(2010, 2, 10)
>>> datetime.datetime.now().date()
datetime.date(2010, 2, 10)

Upvotes: 23

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