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

I like this one because it is intuitive and it gives an array of date strings.

import re
import datetime

def datetime_to_str_date(dt):
    return re.sub(r'\T.+$','', dt.isoformat())

start_date = datetime.datetime.strptime('2016-01-01', '%Y-%m-%d')
end_date = datetime.datetime.today()
num_of_days = (end_date - start_date).days

date_list = map(
        datetime_to_str_date, 
        [start_date + datetime.timedelta(days=x) for x in range(0, num_of_days)]
)