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

import datetime
real_date1 = datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in date1.split('-')])
real_date2 = datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in date2.split('-')])
date_range =  real_date2 - real_date1
dates = list()
for days in xrange(date_range.days):
    dates.append(real_date1 + datetime.timedelta(days))

print dates

for python 3 use range instead of xrange.