how to get the same day of next month of a given day in python using datetime

Question

i know using datetime.timedelta i can get the date of some days away form given date

daysafter = datetime.date.today() + datetime.timedelta(days=5)
         


        

Answer 1

This is how I solved it.

from datetime import date
try:
    (year, month) = divmod(date.today().month, 12)
    next_month = date.today().replace(year=date.today().year+year, month=month+1)
except ValueError:
    # This day does not exist in next month

You can skip the try/catch if you only want the first day in next month by setting replace(year=date.today().year+year, month=month, day=1). This will always be a valid date since we have caught the month overflow using divmod.