How to get yesterday's date using Python timedelta

 

How to use datetime module to get yesterday's date.

All of us use Python's date time library for multiple date/time task, there is an additional function named as timedelta that can be used to get previous date as per requested varaible.

Let's go through it :)

Script to extract yesterday date

 # Python script to get yesterday date.
 from datetime import date, timedelta

 # Block to get present day data
 today = date.today()
 print("Today's date : ", today.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))

 # Block to get yesterday data
 yesterday = today - timedelta(days = 1)
 print("Yesterday's date : ", yesterday.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))

Output

 
  Today's date : 2021-06-29
  Yesterday's date : 2021-06-28

Same way, we can change the timedelta to n number of day ( day = n )

Below, we will extract the 4 days old date

Script to extract yesterday date

 # Python script to get yesterday date.
 from datetime import date, timedelta

 # Block to get present day data
 today = date.today()
 print("Today's date : ", today.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))

 # Block to get yesterday data
 yesterday = today - timedelta(days = 4)
 print("Yesterday's date : ", yesterday.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))

Output

 
  Today's date : 2021-06-29
  Yesterday's date : 2021-06-25