Pull Last 3 Months
Paul Hankin
paul.hankin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 17:32:29 EDT 2007
On Oct 17, 9:59 pm, Harlin Seritt <harlinser... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a module that can pull str values for say the last 3 months?
> Something like:
>
> print lastMonths(3)
>
> ['Sep', 'Aug', 'Jul']
You should take a look at the 'datetime' module.
You can get the current month:
datetime.datetime.now().month
And a list of all abbreviated month names:
[datetime.datetime(1900, i + 1, 1).strftime('%b') for i in range(12)]
>From there, it shouldn't be too tricky to construct the list of months
you want.
--
Paul Hankin
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