Equivalent function of MatLab's “dateshift(…)” in Python?

Question

MatLab can take a date and move it to the end of the month, quarter, etc. using the dateshift(...) function .

Is there an equivalent function in Python?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it counts as the same, but the datetime module can make times available as a timetuple , with separate components for year, month, day etc. This is easy to manipulate directly to advance to the next month, etc.

If you don't mind using an extension, check out dateutil . The list of features starts with:

• Computing of relative deltas (next month, next year, next monday, last week of month, etc);

The documentation for dateutil.relativedelta shows how to advance to various points.

Answer 2

I think calendar.monthrange should do it for you, eg:

>>> import datetime, calendar
>>> year = int(input("Enter year: "))
Enter year: 2012
>>> month = int(input("Enter month: "))
Enter month: 3
>>> endOfMonthDate = datetime.date(year, month, calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1])
>>> endOfMonthDate
datetime.date(2012, 3, 31)
>>> 

You might find other helpful functions here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/calendar.html and here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html