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pythondatetime
robsanna
robsanna

Reputation: 433

Comparing datetime to a time range

I have a datetime object representing when a user logged, from this object I want to check whether the datetime object expresses a date in the range today -7, so if today is 2018-06-21 I would like to return ever date between today and 2018-06-14. I attach an example of my code (terribly wrong).

 def joined_today(self, query):

    filtered = []
    today = datetime.today().date()
    for x in query:
        if x[1].date() = today -7:
            filtered.append(x)

    return filtered

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599450

A couple of things here. Firstly, you can do date calculations using datetime.timedelta. And secondly, you don't want to check that the date is equal to "today - 7", you want to check it is greater than that and less than or equal to today. So:

seven_days_ago = today - timedelta(days=7)
for x in query:
    if seven_days_ago < x[1].date() <= today:
        ...

Upvotes: 2

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