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

Assuming your dates are already as a datetime.date class you can use .fromordinal and .toordinal to create this oneliner.

from datetime import date

start_date = date(2011, 5, 3)
end_date = date(2011, 5, 10)

[date.fromordinal(i) for i in range(start_date.toordinal(), end_date.toordinal())]

The result is exclusive end_date. Use end_date.toordinal() + 1 for a range inclusive end_date.