Python 2.7 Get month from 2 months ago (i.e get '05' from todays date)

Question

I'm sure there is an easy way to do this that I have missed with my efforts to find the answer.

Basically how do I get the number of month i.e '05' or '04' from n number of months ago?

Apologies if this was already answered but the questions I researched here could not answer my question.

Edit

There is no month parameter in timedelta, so this did not answer my question.

Martin answered my question perfectly!

Answer 1

With some simple modular arithmetic:

from datetime import date

def months_ago(count):
    today = date.today()
    return ((today.month - count - 1) % 12) + 1

Demo:

>>> date.today()
datetime.date(2015, 7, 28)
>>> for i in range(13):
...     print(months_ago(i))
... 
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
12
11
10
9
8
7