given a date object in python, how do I subtract one day

Question

have a variable I've set up

now = datetime.datetime.now()

I want to be able to set up a variable, yesterday, that just takes now and subtracts one day from it.

I'm sure that this is super-easy, but how do I do this?

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/441147/how-can-i-subtract-a-day-from-a-python-date — squiguy, Mar 19 '13 at 22:20

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 22:19

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You can use datetime.timedelta:

now = datetime.datetime.now()
yesterday = now - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

answered Mar 19 '13 at 22:19

mipadi

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