How can I generate recurring dates using Python? For example I want to generate recurring date for "Third Friday of every second month". I want to generate recurring dates for daily, weekly, monthly, yearly (i.e., same as the recurrence function in Outlook Express).
import dateutil.rrule as dr
import dateutil.parser as dp
import dateutil.relativedelta as drel
start=dp.parse("19/02/2010") # Third Friday in Feb 2010
This generates the third Friday of every month
rr = dr.rrule(dr.MONTHLY,byweekday=drel.FR(3),dtstart=start, count=10)
This prints every third Friday:
print map(str,rr)
# ['2010-02-19 00:00:00', '2010-03-19 00:00:00', '2010-04-16 00:00:00', '2010-05-21 00:00:00', '2010-06-18 00:00:00', '2010-07-16 00:00:00', '2010-08-20 00:00:00', '2010-09-17 00:00:00', '2010-10-15 00:00:00', '2010-11-19 00:00:00']
rr is an iterable, so you can use slicing notation to pick out every other item. This prints the third Friday of every other month:
print map(str,rr[::2])
# ['2010-02-19 00:00:00', '2010-04-16 00:00:00', '2010-06-18 00:00:00', '2010-08-20 00:00:00', '2010-10-15 00:00:00']
Above, I used str
to prettify the output a little bit. For more flexible string formatting of dates, use strftime
: See http://au2.php.net/strftime or the man page for strftime for all the options.
print [d.strftime('%d/%m/%Y') for d in rr[::2]]
# ['19/02/2010', '16/04/2010', '18/06/2010', '20/08/2010', '15/10/2010']
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