Generating all dates within a given range in python

Question

I have two string variables which contain dates in yyyy-mm-dd format as follows :

date1 = \'2011-05-03\'
date2 = \'2011-05-10\'

I want to write

Answer 1

from dateutil import rrule, parser

date1 = '2011-05-03'
date2 = '2011-05-10'

dates = list(rrule.rrule(rrule.DAILY,
                         dtstart=parser.parse(date1),
                         until=parser.parse(date2)))

print dates

Since dateutil is not a standard library, you will have to install it as a separate package. See the documentation for further details regarding the format (especially dayfirst and yearfirst switches).