Python generating a list of dates between two dates

Question

I want to generate a list of dates between two dates and store them in a list in string format. This list is useful to compare with other dates I have.

My code is given below:

from datetime import date, timedelta  sdate = date(2019,3,22)   # start date edate = date(2019,4,9)   # end date  def dates_bwn_twodates(start_date, end_date):     for n in range(int ((end_date - start_date).days)):         yield start_date + timedelta(n) print(dates_bwn_twodates(sdate,edate)) 

My present output:

<generator object dates_bwn_twodates at 0x000002A8E7929410> 

My expected output:

['2019-03-22',.....,'2019-04-08'] 

Something wrong in my code.

Answer 1

You can use pandas.date_range() for this:

import pandas pandas.date_range(sdate,edate-timedelta(days=1),freq='d') 

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DatetimeIndex(['2019-03-22', '2019-03-23', '2019-03-24', '2019-03-25',            '2019-03-26', '2019-03-27', '2019-03-28', '2019-03-29',            '2019-03-30', '2019-03-31', '2019-04-01', '2019-04-02',            '2019-04-03', '2019-04-04', '2019-04-05', '2019-04-06',            '2019-04-07', '2019-04-08'],           dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='D') 

Answer 2

Your code rewritten as a list comprehension:

[sdate+timedelta(days=x) for x in range((edate-sdate).days)] 

results:

[datetime.date(2019, 3, 22),  datetime.date(2019, 3, 23),  datetime.date(2019, 3, 24),           :  datetime.date(2019, 4, 7),  datetime.date(2019, 4, 8)]