How to calculate number of days between two given dates?

Question

If I have two dates (ex. \'8/18/2008\' and \'9/26/2008\'), what is the best way to get the number of days between these two dates?

Answer 1

everyone has answered excellently using the date, let me try to answer it using pandas

dt = pd.to_datetime('2008/08/18', format='%Y/%m/%d')
dt1 = pd.to_datetime('2008/09/26', format='%Y/%m/%d')

(dt1-dt).days

This will give the answer. In case one of the input is dataframe column. simply use dt.days in place of days

(dt1-dt).dt.days