Return datetime object of previous month

Solution 1:

You can use the third party dateutil module (PyPI entry here).

import datetime
import dateutil.relativedelta

d = datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-03-31", "%Y-%m-%d")
d2 = d - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(months=1)
print d2

output:

2013-02-28 00:00:00

Solution 2:

After the original question's edit to "any datetime object in the previous month", you can do it pretty easily by subtracting 1 day from the first of the month.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def a_day_in_previous_month(dt):
   return dt.replace(day=1) - timedelta(days=1)

Return datetime object of previous month

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