Finding all time periods for a given interval within a date range

[Chris Irish]

Robert Brewer wrote:

>Graeme Longman wrote:
>  
>
>>I was wondering if anyone has written some Python code which 
>>uses a start
>>date and end date and a given interval (day, month or year) 
>>and outputs all
>>the time periods for that range and interval.
>>
>>For example you may wish to find all the months between the dates
>>'2004-02-14' and '2004-08-04'. You would maybe use a function 
>>where you pass
>>in those starting and ending dates and the interval 'month' 
>>and you'd get
>>back a list of those months. I guess you would need to year 
>>part of the date
>>too, so ['2004-02', '2004-03', '2004-04', '2004-05', 
>>'2004-06', '2004-07',
>>'2004-08']. If you had passed in 'day' as the interval then 
>>you would be
>>given back a list of all the days in those months.
>>    
>>
>
>You should also look into the mx.DateTime module it has all sorts of time functionality already built into it much better than the python time module.  Have a look here   
>
>http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html
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