[Python-Dev] How do you get yesterday from a time object

[Simon Brunning]

On 4/19/05, Ralph Hilton <flinkkettel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> i'm a beginning python programmer.
> 
> I want to get the date for yesterday
> 
> nowTime = time.localtime(time.time())
> print nowTime.
> oneDay = 60*60*24 # number seconds in a day
> yday = nowTime - oneDay  # <-- generates an error
> print yday.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

today = datetime.date.today()
previous_working = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

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Simon B,
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