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3kstc
3kstc

Reputation: 1965

Date Boundaries with Python's date.strftime

I am really new to Python and I am trying to define two boundary dates start_period_date and the end_period_date. The current snippet of code prints this on to a GNU plot graph.

Python Code:

        end_period_date = date.strftime( "%A %d %b %Y")
        goBack = timedelta(days=8)
        start_period_date = end_period_date - goBack
        print( "set label 1 \"" + machine_name + "\\nWeekly Utilization Graph " + start_period_date + " till " +  end_period_date +"\" at graph 0,1.125 left", file=f )

The output is (top) but I want the output to be the bottom 12 April:enter image description here

I have tried looking at various examples but I can't seem to see my error. Any suggestions or any other alternatives?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

aroy
aroy

Reputation: 482

Try this way :

import datetime 
end_period_date = datetime.date.today()
start_period_date = end_period_date - datetime.timedelta(days=8)
print end_period_date.strftime("%A %d %b %Y")
print start_period_date.strftime("%A %d %b %Y")

Output:

Wednesday 20 Apr 2016 
Tuesday 12 Apr 2016

Make sure your end_period_date is date not string. May be will help you.

Upvotes: 1

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