Difference between two dates in Python

Question

Use - to get the difference between two datetime objects and take the days member.

from datetime import datetime

def days_between(d1, d2):
    d1 = datetime.strptime(d1, "%Y-%m-%d")
    d2 = datetime.strptime(d2, "%Y-%m-%d")
    return abs((d2 - d1).days)

Another short solution:

from datetime import date

def diff_dates(date1, date2):
    return abs(date2-date1).days

def main():
    d1 = date(2013,1,1)
    d2 = date(2013,9,13)
    result1 = diff_dates(d2, d1)
    print '{} days between {} and {}'.format(result1, d1, d2)
    print ("Happy programmer's day!")

main()

I tried the code posted by larsmans above but, there are a couple of problems:

1) The code as is will throw the error as mentioned by mauguerra 2) If you change the code to the following:

...
    d1 = d1.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    d2 = d2.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    return abs((d2 - d1).days)

This will convert your datetime objects to strings but, two things

1) Trying to do d2 - d1 will fail as you cannot use the minus operator on strings and 2) If you read the first line of the above answer it stated, you want to use the - operator on two datetime objects but, you just converted them to strings

What I found is that you literally only need the following:

import datetime

end_date = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
start_date = end_date - datetime.timedelta(days=8)
difference_in_days = abs((end_date - start_date).days)

print difference_in_days

Try this:

data=pd.read_csv('C:\Users\Desktop\Data Exploration.csv')
data.head(5)
first=data['1st Gift']
last=data['Last Gift']
maxi=data['Largest Gift']
l_1=np.mean(first)-3*np.std(first)
u_1=np.mean(first)+3*np.std(first)


m=np.abs(data['1st Gift']-np.mean(data['1st Gift']))>3*np.std(data['1st Gift'])
pd.value_counts(m)
l=first[m]
data.loc[:,'1st Gift'][m==True]=np.mean(data['1st Gift'])+3*np.std(data['1st Gift'])
data['1st Gift'].head()




m=np.abs(data['Last Gift']-np.mean(data['Last Gift']))>3*np.std(data['Last Gift'])
pd.value_counts(m)
l=last[m]
data.loc[:,'Last Gift'][m==True]=np.mean(data['Last Gift'])+3*np.std(data['Last Gift'])
data['Last Gift'].head()