How to get the last day of the month?

Question

Is there a way using Python\'s standard library to easily determine (i.e. one function call) the last day of a given month?

If the standard library doesn\'t support

Answer 1

You can calculate the end date yourself. the simple logic is to subtract a day from the start_date of next month. :)

So write a custom method,

import datetime

def end_date_of_a_month(date):


    start_date_of_this_month = date.replace(day=1)

    month = start_date_of_this_month.month
    year = start_date_of_this_month.year
    if month == 12:
        month = 1
        year += 1
    else:
        month += 1
    next_month_start_date = start_date_of_this_month.replace(month=month, year=year)

    this_month_end_date = next_month_start_date - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    return this_month_end_date

Calling,

end_date_of_a_month(datetime.datetime.now().date())

It will return the end date of this month. Pass any date to this function. returns you the end date of that month.