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user10425666
user10425666

Reputation: 21

Run the same Python code with different dates

I have a python code that I need to re-run for each new set of dates. Each time I run it I need to change my start and end date in the code. The code looks like this:

startdate = '20150831'
enddate='20160831'

Is there a way to automate it so that the code iterates through the dates in my lists and runs the model for each set of dates?

startdate =['20150831','20150730','20150630']
enddate = ['20160831','20160730','20160630']

Upvotes: 0

Views: 164

Answers (1)

12944qwerty
12944qwerty

Reputation: 2007

We can make use of the zip() builtin function. It will combine the two lists so that it will look something like this:

>>> list(zip(startdate, enddate)) # Zip returns a zip object, so we need to cast to list to make it readable
# [('20150831', '20160831'), ('20150730', '20160730'), ('20150630', '20160630')]

And we can implement it like so

if isinstance(startdate, str): # Making sure that startdate is iterable in the way you want
    startdate = [startdate]
if isinstance(enddate, str):
    enddate = [enddate]

for start, end in zip(startdates, enddates):
    model(start, end) # Run your model through the set

Upvotes: 1

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