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 time

def dates_between(start, end):
  start_epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(start, "%Y-%m-%d")))
  end_epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(end, "%Y-%m-%d"))) + 1 #include end
  return range(start_epoch, end_epoch, 86400)