How to get the dates of yesterday today and tomorrow using numpy
This recipe helps you get the dates of yesterday today and tomorrow using numpy
Recipe Objective
Working with datetime, we might be interested to find the dates of today, yesterday or event after 365 days from today.
So this recipe is a short example on how to get the dates of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Let's get started.
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Table of Contents
Step 1 - Import the library
import numpy as np
Let's pause and look at these imports. Numpy is generally helpful in data manipulation while working with arrays. It also helps in performing mathematical operation.
Step 2 - Generating dates
today = np.datetime64('today', 'D')
yesterday = np.datetime64('today', 'D') - np.timedelta64(1, 'D')
tomorrow =np.datetime64('today', 'D') + np.timedelta64(1, 'D')
Here, we have used datetime64 function and timedelta64 function of numpy library for computing dates.
Step 3 - Printing dates
print(today)
print(yesterday)
print(tomorrow)
Simply use print function to print the dates of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Step 4 - Let's look at our dataset now
Once we run the above code snippet, we will see:
2020-11-04
2020-11-03
2020-11-05
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