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 code that generates all dates in the range date1 to date2. How can this be done in Python?

Answer 1

Pandas is great for time series in general, and has direct support both for date ranges and date parsing (it's automagic).

import pandas as pd date1 = '2011-05-03' date2 = '2011-05-10' mydates = pd.date_range(date1, date2).tolist() 

It also has lots of options to make life easier. For example if you only wanted weekdays, you would just swap in bdate_range.

See https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/timeseries.html#generating-ranges-of-timestamps